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Le Belve (2011)

by Don Winslow(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8806207709 (ISBN13: 9788806207700)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Einaudi

series

Savages

review 1: Each paragraph like a stick of dynamite; it is the paragraph, the singular block that comprises the graphic novel that's very much post-YA, post-Ellis punch to the face... and of course it's very amoral and gruesome.This novel was alarming to me because, as a zeitgeisty book, it tells of conspicuous consumption which in the 80s was ultracool, but in the 2010s equates the acquisition of material things to a biological process--a need that's as basic and primordial as breathing.The title and theme of savages excuses the need to feel, as a reader, any type of empathy for any character whatsoever--vacuous and unreal they are, in their stinky-perfume aura of perpetual hip. It's one fantastic safari of animals, cruelly killing each other... the bombastic often-straying-into-poet... morery chapters, with bold text that seems to chomp on the pages like a monster. Like some prose-producing evil machine...This has a twinge of "Trainspotting"; a dash of Alex Garland too. (Hey, just a thought: maybe Danny Boyle woulda been a better choice for the cinematic adaptation of "Savages" over Oliver Stone...)Points off for awful Spanish word translations. "Animale" is "animal", if you can believe, and "vamanos", as most people know, is "vaMOnos." And these are but a select ones... the disregard for this just makes it... less cool? Nah, it's pretty damn cool anyway.i.e."Warning: trying to sleep on speed may trigger a psychopathic episode. Consult your physician immediately. Like, warning: if erection persists for more than four hours, consult a physician immediately and hope you have one fucking horny physician." (170-171)
review 2: Another book gift from Sabienna! The book is written in stream of consciousness, and at first glance it's definitely not my style. THAT SAID. The book is pretty freaking awesome and once I started, I couldn't put it down. For a story involving murder and mayhem and drug cartels, Winslow really tells the human side of the story (and not in that chintzy 10 o'clock news way, but an actual human story). There are also lots of surprise!women in charge moments in this book, which I really enjoyed, and even though it ends like a classic Western (which...this book is like a modern Western for drug cartels in Southern California) it was worth the ride. less

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