From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:35:03 +1000
Subject: Book Review - Flicker

     title: Flicker
        by: Theodore Roszak
 publisher: Bantam Books
  subjects: fiction, conspiracy, film
     other: 672 pages

I had very mixed feelings about _Flicker_.  It's a great read,
with some wonderfully memorable characters and lots of interesting
detail about the film world in the United States in the 50s and 60s
(not a subject I know much about, but I imagine film buffs will
enjoy it even more than I did).  The plot, however, is centred on a
grand international conspiracy and just doesn't carry its weight.
The problem isn't so much that it strains suspension of disbelief
(though it does fit oddly with the realism of the rest of the
novel), but that it just isn't interesting: *Another* international
conspiracy dating back to the Cathars and the Templars?  *Yawn*.
I think _Flicker_ would have been much better as a "straight" novel.

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%T	Flicker
%A	Theodore Roszak
%I	Bantam Books
%C	New York
%D	1992
%O	paperback
%G	ISBN 0-553-40523-3
%P	672pp
%K	fiction, conspiracy, film

Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
25 March 1995

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