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The Angry Buddhist (2012)

by Seth Greenland(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

160945068X (ISBN13: 9781609450687)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Europa Editions

review 1: I was seduced by the pretty Europa edition of this book and the lure of a dark comic novel about southern California. Instead, it read like the outline of a script for a movie or TV show. The book could work well as one of those in the right hands, but as a novel it disappointed. No interiority for any of the characters, and no character to root for. (Of course, one doesn't need a character to root for, but the writer needs to be much more skillful to pull that off. Greenland isn't.) I wish I had not wasted my time.
review 2: Kind of a So Cal desert version of Carl Hiaasen, Greenland rips his way through Coachella Valley stereotypes with a chainsaw, applying his final blows with rapier wit. The Angry Buddhist is a social satire that skewers a broad range of des... moreert types-- power-made politicians, corrupt cops, demented ex-cons, social-climbing prosties, and various other fuck-ups who converge in a kind of manic mashup of the police procedural and a Marx brothers movie. I had lots of fun with it, with a special shout-out for the insinuation of Buddhist meditation practice amid the melee. less

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