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Title: Mutton Dressed As Lamb
Review: This was the first of this author's books I've ever read. I bought the hype and got the book. I know nothing about this author but from this book it appears to me he is not from Texas. Not even Texans act so Texan. Which is saying alot.I think John D. McDonald and Jim Thompson and others of their ilk do a vastly superior job of examining what i assume Comac was exploring. I thought the characters simplistic and foolish and i felt no connection or curiosity about any of them. It seemed like the whole first half of the book was dedicated to packing and unpacking bags. The phony terse narration seemed like a Ralph Lauren cowboy add with an occasional Important Message or Meaningful Thought not so subtly sprinkled about.As a light weight crime thriller, the book is unsatisfying, as literature, it ain't. Read Cain,Woolrich,McDonald or Thompson and just ignore this ultimately boring and condescending musing of a giant of american Literature.
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