This is a wonderful review. I wish I could enjoy "Brighton Rock" a bit more. I heard the Morrissey song "Now My Heart is Full" before I read the novel and, when I realised who the characters in the lyrics were, wanted to read it. Then I read the wonderful "King Dork" by Frank Portman in which the narrator proclaims "Brighton Rock" as being the greatest novel ever written and just knew it had to be mine.
I read it and was pretty disappointed. I can see why it's good but I can't say I enjoyed it particularly. :(
The girl who suggested it to our bookclub felt similarly. She loved the book as a teenager but found it, on this second time around, too depressing and sagging a little in the middle. Maybe it's a little bit like Catcher in the Rye, where you need to be young to feel more sympathetic towards the teenagers, or something. The big attraction for me was the language itself, the Moz connection, the setting and mood - and the novelty of reading Greene for the first time!
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Peut-être, peut-être.
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I read it and was pretty disappointed. I can see why it's good but I can't say I enjoyed it particularly. :(
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