Dr. John A. King abandons books that don't hook him, even by respected authors. He quit a recent Mamet title around page 20 because the dialogue felt flat, chunks of untranslated French slowed him down, and he'd rather read from his massive pile of waiting books.
Like, you can do better than that, uh, James. You can actually use, you know, make full sentences. Couldn't do it. Didn't like it. Won't read it. Didn't touch it. Spent a lot of money. Good to throw at a burglar. I love everything Mamet does except this. As you can see from the flap, I was 26 pages in and stopped it because the dialogue just didn't get me. I don't know what he was trying to achieve with the dialogue. Uh, there's a whole lot of French stuff in there again, so maybe I just Maybe I just want to read my books in English. There's a whole bunch of French stuff in there, and I just couldn't do it. Uh, it was too halting, uh, didn't grab me. I was 20 or 30 pages in. People would say, well, you need to give it more. Yeah, I don't think so, man. I've got thousands of books back here I want to read.
