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Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat (2011)

by Andrez Bergen(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0984559701 (ISBN13: 9780984559701)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Another Sky Press

review 1: Dystopia has never been so jaunty and wisecracking! This is quick-paced fun that will make you think of various different stories. Yes, the Blade Runner parallels are inevitable, but now that I've finished, I'll stand by my early impression: there's a definite Thomas Pynchon vibe here. The hero's name, the presence of a character called V., the playful tone, the deep love of pop culture, the skewed approach...all are akin to Pynchon. But that's not to say "Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat" is any kind of knockoff. It has its own sensibility.
review 2: there’s some remarkable genre cross-over going on here, a sort of noir-ish flair rubbing up against a dystopian, Philip K. Dick bleakness. I was worried that Bergen, as a writer entirely new to me, wouldn’t be ab... morele to sustain the charm and solid writing in TSMG’s earliest pages, but I needn’t have worried. The man’s imagination is vivid and consistent, and his love of old films (woven so nicely throughout the story) will appeal to anyone who grew up watching Bogart flicks. less

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