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Themes in 100 Bullets

 
 
No star here laces
10:30 / 07.02.02
Agent Graves: "I always tell the truth"

And he does. He even rats Loop out to five-O...

Shepherd, on the other hand always lies. He continually plays both sides and never plays anyone straight.

Does this remind anyone else of that old brain-teaser with the two robots, one who always lies and one who always tells the truth, and the two passageways, one which leads to death and one to life?

I'm betting somewhere along the line, someone will say to Shepherd or Graves "what would the other one tell me to do?"

Luck.

Benito is the luckiest guy alive. His dad runs the Trust. He always wins at cards. etc. But the characters in Graves' game are always unlucky. Always fucked over, always life's losers. As epitomised by Hank Kowalski who tries to shoot Benito.

Not sure where this one's going...

Anyone got any others?
 
 
The Knowledge +1
14:48 / 07.02.02
There's that whole baseball thing going on - The 'hit a home-run, once in a lifetime thing'.

I do LOVE the way this book bounces around the theme of choices, and how all the epic and drama stuff results from choices made by the characters. It's like Garth Ennis coupled with James Ellroy and Boys n' the hood.

I reckon that the home run is gonna be something like one of the inherently honest characters killing the guy who runs the world.
 
 
_pin
11:49 / 08.02.02
Is this book any good?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:10 / 08.02.02
Staggeringly good. There are some past threads where myself and Agent Laces, among others, rave about it...
 
  
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