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A review by vitalbeachyeah
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
3.0
More unrelenting grimness - at its worst the way Peace revels in horrible things happening again and again seems a bit adolescent, even ridiculous. There's an awful lot of (often sexual) violence perpetrated against women in order to give the male protagonists motivation, which is cheap and tired.
But, like 1974, this has got a real momentum which comes from the urgent prose style (lots of terse sentences, short paragraphs, repetition). When it gets going in the second half, it's as compelling as anything I've read recently. So, er, I strongly dislike quite a few things about this series, but am clearly going to read the remaining two books anyway...
But, like 1974, this has got a real momentum which comes from the urgent prose style (lots of terse sentences, short paragraphs, repetition). When it gets going in the second half, it's as compelling as anything I've read recently. So, er, I strongly dislike quite a few things about this series, but am clearly going to read the remaining two books anyway...