Past Tense (I Was Dora Suarez - Derek Raymond)

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Product:	I Was Dora Suarez - Derek Raymond
Date:	03/08/00 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Intelligent and thoughtful crime fiction.

Disadvantages: Shorter than many crime novels.

For some reason, I wasn't too impressed with this first time through: it seemed to be full of thuggish, bullying police behavior and rubbishy mysticism in a search for a psychotic serial killer in modern London; a second attempt revealed it to be a very good, intelligent, crisply-written-in-modern-fashion book, "metaphysical" in a sufferable sense. The style requires some concentration: it's a kind of baroque Hemmingway. Squeamish readers might not like some of the descriptions, because there is a lot of violence against both men and women in the book, but it isn't as dubious as it is in books like Silence of the Lambs.

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