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- From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:35:03 +1000
- Subject: Book Review - Flicker
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- title: Flicker
- by: Theodore Roszak
- publisher: Bantam Books
- subjects: fiction, conspiracy, film
- other: 672 pages
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- I had very mixed feelings about _Flicker_. It's a great read,
- with some wonderfully memorable characters and lots of interesting
- detail about the film world in the United States in the 50s and 60s
- (not a subject I know much about, but I imagine film buffs will
- enjoy it even more than I did). The plot, however, is centred on a
- grand international conspiracy and just doesn't carry its weight.
- The problem isn't so much that it strains suspension of disbelief
- (though it does fit oddly with the realism of the rest of the
- novel), but that it just isn't interesting: *Another* international
- conspiracy dating back to the Cathars and the Templars? *Yawn*.
- I think _Flicker_ would have been much better as a "straight" novel.
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- %T Flicker
- %A Theodore Roszak
- %I Bantam Books
- %C New York
- %D 1992
- %O paperback
- %G ISBN 0-553-40523-3
- %P 672pp
- %K fiction, conspiracy, film
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- Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
- 25 March 1995
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