tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post4584296389505475751..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Bruno FischerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-21263452062079504892007-05-28T12:14:00.000-05:002007-05-28T12:14:00.000-05:00I have that Ballantine reprint, which I've read a ...I have that Ballantine reprint, which I've read a couple of times. A fine book.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-11345710640500299552007-05-28T12:10:00.000-05:002007-05-28T12:10:00.000-05:00Books mean different things to different people fo...Books mean different things to different people for different reasons. In my case, as I wrote Ed Lynskey this morning, Fischer's The EVIL DAYS has stayed with me for nearly thirty-five years because a) I read it during the shaky time I was seeing the world without liqour or drugs in twenty years b) because of the way Fischer portrays the "quiet desperation" of the narrator, a decent man trapped in a job that doesn't pay enough with a wife who wants more than he can give in terms of creature comforts (and she's not unreasonable; Fischer is fair to her) and a sense that his life has already been lived and he's just coasting to the grave and c) the jealousy and distrust the mcguffin of the story inspires in him--and his wife's possible connection to the dead man. Again, maybe the simple reason that I was without the armor of my drugs to protect me....maybe that made me particularly sensitive to what Fischer was saying in the book. But I tell you I've read it three or four times since and it holds up extremely well. For me, it's his masterpiece. And what a hell of a great way to end a long career, your best book last. Ed GormanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com