Waiting Period
by Hubert Selby Jr.
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Author: Hubert Selby Jr.Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN: 0714530905
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
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Book Review: Dull and silly and pretentious and pointless
Summary: 2 Stars
It's not a good book- although at times there is a nice build up of tension and suspense.... But the thing that really annoyed me was why does Selby persist in not using punctuation, why is the second voice is so benign and forgiving and why is the man, our hero, so cowardly and weasely.
The thing that really took me to task is that the "hero" is a Vietnam veteran- or so I assume, the first victim being a VA administrator who hasn't given our boy his dues. All the other reviewers seem to have this impression also.
So why, when our boy goes to the gun store does he not know about a safety catch,
It doesn't work, I can't pull it back.
You got the safety on.
Safety?
Yeah. Haha, you really are a novice.
And-
Oh it's heavy. I had no idea handguns were so heavy.
And then later we have some internal dialogue from our main man-
But first Ive got to do what that guy said and go to a range and get familiar with it. Learn to shoot it and take it apart and clean it and all that. In the army those guys learn how to take their weapons apart blindfolded...
Those guys? I thought he was a veteran. The reason why this point irks me so, is that I thought it was the clue to the man having a schizophrenic state of mind and that that the VA administrator was innocent and that he was the guilty party, he merely imagining that he was a veteran. This would have been a twist to the plot it would have been something to tax the mind and make us think about our self perceptions and values. Instead we got a simple dull path of selfish actions, that our boy's machismo justifies, only brightened by my waiting for the explanation for his confused thinking... which never came.
In fact the more that I think about this- the worse it gets. Can you imagine spending years between books and making such a mistake.
An awful, self pitying, self righteous book, that is poorly written.
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