tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285015481837682105.post9113613884531389852..comments2023-10-14T05:16:12.776-07:00Comments on THE THRILLER GUY: How Much is Too Much? Rape, Murder and Torture in the Modern Thriller.Allen Appelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577225721733421143noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285015481837682105.post-4312003082119895272015-08-08T00:12:20.708-07:002015-08-08T00:12:20.708-07:00Vicious Circle is junk. I like some of Smith's...Vicious Circle is junk. I like some of Smith's earlier books. He has always been lousy at character development, but made up for it in plot and suspense. This book has one-dimensional predictable cartoon characters. Every single one of them is a caricature. The dialog is ridiculous, the plot meanders and stalls and just disappears in blood and guts. The entire premise is as unbelievable as the characters. I tried and tried to get through it, but gave up when the billionaire family-murdering pedophile took over the African country with his huge WWE black lover who escaped from death row with the help of a sect of Muslims and hired Robert Mugabe's army to kill the current king. Not a word of exaggeration; that is the actual plot. Wilbur, you should have hung it up years ago. This one is beyond a stinker.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17083443971809046294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285015481837682105.post-37964658228109348202013-10-18T04:33:43.308-07:002013-10-18T04:33:43.308-07:00Wow.Nice public service blog you have there.
If it...Wow.Nice public service blog you have there.<br />If it's any consolation, the last two books of his both have a healthy number of one and two star reviews on Amazon reflecting what you said.<br />Apparently, and sadly, there are a large number of readers who, while they may not read anything else, are willingly use their time and cash to follow him. <br />It would be bad if they began reading better written stuff, found it to be lacking the same material and left one star reviews all over the literary landscape. So overall, its better that that group of people, hungry for his brand of writing, stay to themselves.Frank Zubekhttp://www.frankzubek.net/noreply@blogger.com