Warlock (was Re: But the world isn't like that

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

um. "Howdy"! No one ever says Howdy in Warlock, not once, do they?
I'd pitch in to a group read, I don't mean to sound like a churl. It
*is* a good book, after all. I just don't think that there will be much
in Warlock for different readers to fight about, and perhaps not much
cross-pollination as a result. It is really pretty straightforward and
P.C. and the different narrators are all clearly identified and
distinct. There is none of the elision between tham that is so much fun
in P.

Kate Dollar to the doomed virgin Deputy: "What do you want from me? Do
you want your whole life in one night?" I agree with your judgement
about the female characters. I've never read any other Hall, so I can't
generalize, but there are only two in Warlock and neither have any
heft. And people deride Pynchon for his cardboard chess-piece
characters! (Der Springer indeed...)

I enjoyed Warlock. Would I enjoy another? Which would you suggest?

Mark

> A swiflty moving group effort here would, in my opinion, provide a
> lot of
> listers with a fresh perspective on our hero........and I doubt that
> more
> than a handfull will prove resistant to this book's charms.....

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