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Title: Gary (Bangkok)
Review: I have seldom seen a writer make such poor use of such fantastically rich material. The plot is solid, even potentially fascinating, and the blend of myth, history, culture and imagination is an embarrasment of riches. But technically, Adirex is a poor writer, at least in the English language. His use of dialogue is particularly poor - wooden and stilted. Anyone who ends a phone conversation with "I've got to go now" (and he does this on numerous occasions) is struggling. Characterization is equally poor - more like cardboard cutouts with little of the depth you expect from good writing.Reading this book was a very frustrating experience for me. I expected so much and the author certainly had the raw material to deliver. But he simply does not have the technical skills. Perhaps the book's greatest use is as a resource for creative writing classes where teachers demonstrate poor technique and use passages for students to practise improving the poor quality writing.
