Fan-Tan
by Marlon Brando, Donald Cammell
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Author: Donald Cammell, Marlon BrandoEditor: David Thomson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-06
ISBN: 1400044715
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Knopf
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Book Review: Awe-inspiringly bad.
Summary: 1 Stars
Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell, Fan-Tan (Vintage, 2005)
There are times that much-speculated, much-discussed books should go to the grave with their late writers. I must say that never, in years of reading and thousands of books, have I ever felt this way about a piece of writing more than I did about Fan-Tan, Marlon Brando's novel that was published posthumously only because Brando would likely have died of shame had it been published while he was still alive. That said, it's one of those books that I just had to keep going with, to find out how much worse it could possibly get, and in this regard, the book never once failed me. In fact, in its final pages, it exceeded my expectations in a way no writer has since the first time I encountered Matthew Stokoe (and for much the same reason, for those few of you who've read Stokoe's wonderfully disgusting first novel, Cows). Politically incorrect purple prose, a ham-handed sense of plotting, silly characters, and a taste for the perverse all permeate this book; if that's your thing, than by all means, have fun with it. (half)
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