i love it!! i just love it!!!
a man breaks a bottle of on another man's head, and then gouges out the poor sucker's eye with the sharp end.
a man smashes another man's teeth with a rifle butt.
a man runs a knife over a another man's scalp, then grabs his hair and pulls the scalp clear off the skull.
these are just some instances of the kind of delightfully violent scenes in James Carlos Blake's IN THE ROGUE BLOOD.
two brothers, edward and john, are orphaned in their early teens and set out towards texas to make their fortunes. they make it to new orleans, fighting and struggling, and then they're separated and are tossed on different paths.
eventually, war breaks out between mexico and the US of A, and ultimately the two brothers end up fighting for opposite sides.
the entire novel is a tribute to the concept of dark fiction and violent writing. the book is crammed with bloody and gory fight scenes. it is a violence lover's paradise from the beginning to the end.
and the end, man, i love it. it effectively shows the finger to the concept of happy endings.
u don't read this, u don't know what u r missing.....
man, i still got a high from reading it..........................
Friday, January 19, 2007
Saturday, January 13, 2007
The Killer Inside Me
the title itself speaks volmes, huh?
this one's by Jim Thompson, and there was also a movie made on it.
it's about Lou Ford, a deputy sherriff in Texas, who's clinically insane right from childhood. till the time he grows up, he's breeding a killer inside him.
the book begins with Lou getting involved with a call girl, who he eventually plans to kill. but this is not all. he intend to kill two birds with one stone. the plan is to kill Joyce, the callgirl, and pin the blame on the son of the man who's killed Lou's brother, who will also be conveniently dead.
all goes well, till the Fall Guy's father comes storming through, takes one look at his dead son, and whisks the call girl away to an expensive hoepital in the city. she is, unfortunately, alive, although in coma.
from then on, Lou has to take one life after another to hide his guilt, and eventually he goes down. but hell, he goes down in style!
the book grips u like nothing else can. Thompson's portrayal of a man gone crazy is damn effective. if i had a hat, i wud not only raise it, i'd lay it at his feet.
this one's by Jim Thompson, and there was also a movie made on it.
it's about Lou Ford, a deputy sherriff in Texas, who's clinically insane right from childhood. till the time he grows up, he's breeding a killer inside him.
the book begins with Lou getting involved with a call girl, who he eventually plans to kill. but this is not all. he intend to kill two birds with one stone. the plan is to kill Joyce, the callgirl, and pin the blame on the son of the man who's killed Lou's brother, who will also be conveniently dead.
all goes well, till the Fall Guy's father comes storming through, takes one look at his dead son, and whisks the call girl away to an expensive hoepital in the city. she is, unfortunately, alive, although in coma.
from then on, Lou has to take one life after another to hide his guilt, and eventually he goes down. but hell, he goes down in style!
the book grips u like nothing else can. Thompson's portrayal of a man gone crazy is damn effective. if i had a hat, i wud not only raise it, i'd lay it at his feet.
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