Word: clunk
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...slop. Grind, clunk. Dollars...
Inevitably the novel itself is ruled by chance. Some sequences click, and others clunk. Much dice-induced motivation is suspect. Luke might have left his wife and children without ever touching the dice. Even when the plot dawdles, Rhinehart's language and humor exert their wiles. Though he leans more to wisecrack than to wit, he gets off fine mimicrys of TV talk shows, journalistic deepthink and professorial psychoanalytic jargon. Between sheets (the book is copiously copulative), Rhinehart works up a positively Joycean lather-blather...
...stayed only ten minutes. I was escorted up one flight of stairs and ordered to the end of a long row of cells. A very young looking officer then activated a switch, producing the grinding sound of metal sliding on metal. The sound culminated with a dull clunk. I walked through the door to join five friends in a five-by-seven cell containing two bare metal "bunks," a toilet, and a small sink...
Well, he can and he can't-for reasons discernible in his new Book-of-the-Month Club novel set in Paris during the May 1968 student revolution. Initially, there is much to put one off: the usual repetitiousness; those sentences that go clunk in the night; perceptions about humanity better suited to a book called The Merry Month of Jejune...
...seven, there is a clunk behind me. Charlie has gone under and is zonked out on the floor. Donna is also snoozing by this time. On stage, almost everyone is gone by now. Arlene is oblivious, her head nestled on the shoulder of the guy next to her. Masters counts...