Jack Trevor Story (1917–1991)

What a mess... the author entirely gives up towards the end, but he also skips the beginning so i i guess that evens out ;) ?
Touches of 60's surrealism i think but i might be just mistaking extreme confusion for the surreal. Some nice sixties illustrations in my copy ,which i also think might be the only version.


A spie comedy, feels like something Peter Sellers might have starred, except unfilmable due to some of its adult scenes.
As an example of the dark humour we're dealing with here, its implied a secret policeman raped a dog offscreen, stuff like that.

The spie stuff i couldn't follow at all, no idea who was working for who or why, probably intentional but still annoying.
Overall theres really nothing here, some fragments of ideas but nothing else.… (más)

I feel a little bad for not liking this more. Its complete chaos a real 'shaggy dog' story as they say and it seems like something you should read at a quick pace but i've been in a bit of a rut lately so it went very slowly.

It is quite funny but there's also some really messed up stuff going on which can be a bit jarring. Also the main character is an author so he's constantly fictionalizing whats happening around him, usually coming up with some idea of whats going on that turns out to be completely wrong, add to that several characters who lie persistently.

After a while it felt like a british Thomas Pynchon novel or at least something like the Big Lebowski . Its quite filmic, which is normally a compliment but in this case it feels like it might actually work better on film than in book form. Although i can't imagine anyone willing to make something with a schoolgirl like in this :P . She was quite a problem for me but don't worry i don't think... it gets.. too creepy, your mileage may vary ;) . She's as uncertain as everything in this book, aged somewhere between 12 and 28.

Given the style of writing, which is almost meta, probably one of those books enjoyed more by other authors than casual readers.… (más)