Title: Overblown and Vacuous
Product review: I can understand the literary frenzy when CITY OF NIGHT made its debut... Courageous author breaks cultural barrier with unflinching look at gay subculture. Rechy's prose sure fits that era's highfaluting lit style -- overwritten, stream of consciousness, uncompromising, "deep", etc. Highly esteemed by cultural sophisticates, chichi media, and undergraduate college professors as a "classic" -- in the same mold as ON THE ROAD and FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. I remember having to suffer through this type of pretentious drivel during English 101 classes, but with CITY OF NIGHT, I had a choice -- and couldn't finish 100 pages.Self-indulgent prose, unlikeable characters, empty plot lines, overwrought/meaningless monologues, metaphorical nonsense -- I gave it two-stars only because it took a lot of balls to come out with such a depressing slice of your life.
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