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As if we need to be told more often that today's contemporary culture has elements that entice evil deeds, a statement which is absolutely untrue and yet entirely relative. You are not prone to evil deeds if you listen to the author's list of bands. Why not write a book about the Spanish Inquisition or medieval forms of torture? I'm sure that evil people did equally, if not more inventively cruel and unspeakable acts, hundreds, if not thousands of years ago when they did not have the convenience of guns and ammo. To say we are headed to hell in a handbasket is ignorant in itself and lacks any perspective. One age is like the other; there is violence and virtue in equal measures… Read more
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Starting with Smith's 'How Insensitive', which is a yummy snack of a book that I gulped down in two days, I then chased it with 'Noise', which is denser and fuller-bodied. I am so pleased to have discovered an author of Smith's wry wit, cynicism, sensuality, wickedness, masochism, and (relative) youth. I am hungry for his remaining novels and short stories. I've finally found a Canadian author that I am proud to say I admire and whose work I feel cool about recommending/lending/gifting to my close friends. It is so comforting to know that someone else outside of my circle feels the same weird way about Toronto, suburbia, and Ontario. Smith's medium is the realm of the senses, and… Read more
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