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The Mad And The Bad (1972)

by Jean-Patrick Manchette(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590177207 (ISBN13: 9781590177204)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

NYRB Classics

review 1: This is an awesome book. At turns scary, tense, and funny. The plot whips along with very little wasted time. There are a few odd moments, but, even those fail to stall the momentum. The violence feels absurd and real. The characters are complicated, their motives and histories scantily clad. At times, the people in the book feel like acquaintances telling stories that you are overhearing. Its a crime novel, not a mystery, and it reads like real crime feels.
review 2: This book describes a violent ride through the French countryside. The thin plot is dressed up with a few sentences of Marxist rhetoric and philosophic theory and overtones of existentialism to cover what was a badly written and senseless work with poorly drawn characters. Maybe the work was bet... moreter in the original French - but crowning this guy the Raymond Chandler of France is way overblown. Mr. Chandler could write. less

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