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As viewed from a view at the top, this quartet is truly an achievement. I think there distinctions could also be viewed as two sets of duologies, as plenty of crossover occurs in both. As an alternate history reimagining and condemnation of the institutions erected for the corrupt and as bad as criminals, the Justice apparatus is as twisted, defunct, and disgusting as the too-graphic depravity that exists in all of the novels.
There are no heroes. Only less terrible protagonists, often plummeting into uncontrolled descents we can’t help but watch in awe of. We sometimes hope they don’t crash, but there’s no pulling up from these particular spins. Surviving the crash is beside the point, the trajectory and human error is what is predominantly on display, when viewing the books as a whole.
There’s no glossy Hollywoodization, though it is heavily stylized and dramatized. Rather, it’s about showing just how poorly humanity serves the best of humanity, and what it actually nurtures and feeds, despite propaganda we rear ourselves on. It also doesn’t have answers for the fix. New generations of cops emerge throughout, only to be co-opted into new eras of new stains.
It’s pointless to pretend we aren’t fascinated by the darkness and winding roads. But it is equally pointless to pretend like everything is okay when the destruction caused by the people we seed authority to is not actually Good, by any means.
In this particular edition I’ll note the introduction is not great, and even spoils White Fuzz a bit. There’s better articles on why these books are so well regarded. Mostly, it’s just a small summation of what occurs and the subject matter, aside from the major spoiler, self admitted in the text. The Chronology is interesting and the formatting is nice and clean, though the type is somewhat small. It’s a nice edition and, for me, was the most cost effective way to get them all, anyway.
As to the audiobooks I’ve tried of these, no narrator really nails the prose style and dialogue from large casts. It’d be a huge task and with 3-4 different narrators, none of them were better than how it reads on the page.
There are no heroes. Only less terrible protagonists, often plummeting into uncontrolled descents we can’t help but watch in awe of. We sometimes hope they don’t crash, but there’s no pulling up from these particular spins. Surviving the crash is beside the point, the trajectory and human error is what is predominantly on display, when viewing the books as a whole.
There’s no glossy Hollywoodization, though it is heavily stylized and dramatized. Rather, it’s about showing just how poorly humanity serves the best of humanity, and what it actually nurtures and feeds, despite propaganda we rear ourselves on. It also doesn’t have answers for the fix. New generations of cops emerge throughout, only to be co-opted into new eras of new stains.
It’s pointless to pretend we aren’t fascinated by the darkness and winding roads. But it is equally pointless to pretend like everything is okay when the destruction caused by the people we seed authority to is not actually Good, by any means.
In this particular edition I’ll note the introduction is not great, and even spoils White Fuzz a bit. There’s better articles on why these books are so well regarded. Mostly, it’s just a small summation of what occurs and the subject matter, aside from the major spoiler, self admitted in the text. The Chronology is interesting and the formatting is nice and clean, though the type is somewhat small. It’s a nice edition and, for me, was the most cost effective way to get them all, anyway.
As to the audiobooks I’ve tried of these, no narrator really nails the prose style and dialogue from large casts. It’d be a huge task and with 3-4 different narrators, none of them were better than how it reads on the page.