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Deadly Compromises
A bungling hit man accidentally meets and falls in love with the wife of his next intended victim.
186 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2014
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Edward Drobinski
77 books18 followersI have no idea why I write. I know that I like to and wish I had done it all my life. I've thought of various reasons why I started which come and go. The only one which keeps coming back, is that my beginnings coincided with when my dog, Daisy, started to slow down. I am an embarassing 65 years of age now, and I enjoy writing more than anything else, other than being with Daisy. If I could venture a purpose, which isn't easy, it would be that I like to keep doing different things. I hope readers do not want to hear the same story over and over again. They all are derivative and boring.
I intend to try to tell the sagas of various people at the most interesting time of their lives. I think that to do follow ups with the same characters is more lucrative, but would result in lesser stories for the readers and would be tedious for me. We are all entitled to have some fun. Despite the logic conveyed by those most beneficial of the sadness, aren't we entitled to live and love? The answer seems so obvious.
I intend to try to tell the sagas of various people at the most interesting time of their lives. I think that to do follow ups with the same characters is more lucrative, but would result in lesser stories for the readers and would be tedious for me. We are all entitled to have some fun. Despite the logic conveyed by those most beneficial of the sadness, aren't we entitled to live and love? The answer seems so obvious.
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March 8, 2019
'All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl’ (Jean-Luc Godard)
In this homage to film noir and pulp fiction, apart from the gun and the girl (and the romantic anti-hero) we can also find the classic trope of the remote American motel setting, as in ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’. However, the two protagonists of Drobinski’s cinematic novel more closely resemble the lovers in Godard’s nouveau vague film, ‘A Bout de Souffle'.
The eroticism is evoked by the sexy banter between the two lovers, rather than with scenes of an explicit nature, and though the 'crime of passion' aspect may be ripe with moral ambiguity these days, in this particular genre of fiction, the entertainment value outweighs any need for existential philosophising …. so sit back and enjoy the ride!
In this homage to film noir and pulp fiction, apart from the gun and the girl (and the romantic anti-hero) we can also find the classic trope of the remote American motel setting, as in ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’. However, the two protagonists of Drobinski’s cinematic novel more closely resemble the lovers in Godard’s nouveau vague film, ‘A Bout de Souffle'.
The eroticism is evoked by the sexy banter between the two lovers, rather than with scenes of an explicit nature, and though the 'crime of passion' aspect may be ripe with moral ambiguity these days, in this particular genre of fiction, the entertainment value outweighs any need for existential philosophising …. so sit back and enjoy the ride!
June 4, 2015
Worst book I ever read !!. Thank god I didn't pay for this garbage..
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