The Bottomless Well . . . terrific story marred by anti-semitism at end. British occupied Arab land. Legend of Aladdin (different one) building into the heavens. God, angry, throws him into well as deep as the building was to be high. Brits have golf course, clubhouse, etc., near the well. And then--murder. Famous general (Hastings) killed, apparently by his wife's lover. Enter Fisher: He figures out that a revolving bookcase holds the secret as to how the death occurred. Also the (lack of) use of the bottomless well as a place to throw the body plays into the solution. Very clever, and then, some nasty anti-semitism which blames Jews for involving England in places they shouldn't be, all for money. G.K.--I didn't know!
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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