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...Thousand Clowns. By Herb Gardner. It became a successful movie, I believe. Opens tomorrow night. Leverett Old Library...
...Sunlight Dialogues, Gardner...
...definitive hack, the proudly profane author of dozens of paperback thrillers, any one of which would make the novels of Mickey Spillane read like the collected works of John Ruskin. He turns out his books at the rate of 10,000 dictated words per day-just like Erie Stanley Gardner-and markets the finished products under a variety of exotic pseudonyms (like O.R. Gann, "a leading authoress," or "the struggling Nigerian author, S. Odomy"). He also adopts a zealously sleazy lifestyle and a cheap line of patter to fit his chosen profession. No sooner has Mickey polished off his newest...
...SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES is harder to deal with. The Sunlight Man like Agathon, chooses freedom. And Gardner chooses neither the individual nor society for the victor; instead, he selects meaninglessness. It's one thing to accept a well written novel that opts for the absurdity of it all, but it's quite another thing if that kind of work must be buttressed by insignificant novelistic devices. Gardner loses his credibility...
...object, with cumbersome physical structures, and more of an ongoing experience in which the reader could become involved, it would fare much better. But it isn't and it doesn't. It fails, and there's much better reading to be had. Some of it's by Gardner himself; that makes it even harder to say Dialogues isn't worth the time. Or as one of the novel's characters put it: "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot...