...figured since The Wire got so much attention, people would be down for a Richard Price thread...
i read Clockers first... think i bought it b/c i knew of the film, knew the basic plot, and it was cheap... totally blew me away... real and smart... then after reading that a few times, i got obsessed and started looking for other stuff...
read the Wanderers... so so, but very cute... a depiction of a Bronx gang in the late 50's... you just knew these were the people he grew up with...
then read "the breaks", which was more like Clockers to me, more internal...
after that read Freedomland and Samaritin, his Clockers triliogy books.. both really great (freedomland the better of the two)...
now, his new book Lush Life is out... not as good as Clockers, but better than anything else he wrote... not the location is the Lower East Side of Manhattan as opposed to the fictatious (and totally Patterson-esqu) Dempsy, NJ of the Clockers book...
funny to see him capture the LES i know... like i feel like i KNOW at least one charector in there... great pageturner, best beach reading imaginable in the world!
i read Clockers first... think i bought it b/c i knew of the film, knew the basic plot, and it was cheap... totally blew me away... real and smart... then after reading that a few times, i got obsessed and started looking for other stuff...
read the Wanderers... so so, but very cute... a depiction of a Bronx gang in the late 50's... you just knew these were the people he grew up with...
then read "the breaks", which was more like Clockers to me, more internal...
after that read Freedomland and Samaritin, his Clockers triliogy books.. both really great (freedomland the better of the two)...
now, his new book Lush Life is out... not as good as Clockers, but better than anything else he wrote... not the location is the Lower East Side of Manhattan as opposed to the fictatious (and totally Patterson-esqu) Dempsy, NJ of the Clockers book...
funny to see him capture the LES i know... like i feel like i KNOW at least one charector in there... great pageturner, best beach reading imaginable in the world!