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Originally Posted by gmw
I agree with most of this, but I also get what Gregg is say: the over-the-top violence is like a Sylvester Stallone movie - Demolition Man or something. It's not slapstick or comic book funny, but it is "silly" to the extent that it makes no attempt at being realistic.
But we've all started from the wrong premise because of how Gregg described the book (or how we interpreted that description) in combination with the misleading cover and title, and (I think) to a lesser extent the blurb.
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Right! Think "Pulp Fiction." And granted, the original cover misled everyone. And it's hard to recover from that. But the book is not bleak. It gets very silly. And yeah, there's the violence throughout. I think the blurb represents it well but I'm not committed to it. I'm open--and appreciate--suggestions on changing it.