Word: dramaless
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Interspersed throughout this dramaless drama are scenes of Mick's idiosyncratic revenge, his growing doubt (jeepers!) about Gabby's claims of rape and his unerotic tryst with Judy. Gradually, a hilarious irony unfolds: Mick, the most over-touted character in the book ("Meaningless violence was not his style" or "Running was no more his style than waiting...") is in fact a pathetic negative image of King Midas--everything he touches becomes dull. All the sex that he witnesses or takes part in is at some point described as "athletic," and every character with whom he converses stoops to his moronic...
...inferior novel to Leaving Las Vegas, which was composed during one of the few sober periods in O'Brien's adult life, The Assault on Tony's can be choppy and dramaless despite a smattering of lyrical passages. Nevertheless, Assault remains the more philosophical of the two books, as it presents a picture of addiction truer to O'Brien's grim vision. There is not the slightest possibility of salvation for Rudd and his comrades--not even a marginally redeeming love story, as in Leaving Las Vegas. Drinking themselves to death is an inevitability these men seem to accept. Behind...
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