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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
Of those the only one I've read is Lolita and it is not in present tense.
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Dr. Drib PhD. was citing books that famously employ unreliable narrators and did so, if I understand him, to reference why a fiction writer who's so inclined might want to use present tense.
But I can see why you might have interpreted the good doctor as you did, since his switch from tense to voice is clearer if you've studied the use of unreliable narrators and happen to be familiar with all of those books.
Really, you could use any Thompson novel to make that point. Also
Crime and Punishment, which is reportedly the book that inspired Thompson (and probably Nabokov, though he'd never admit it because he famously hated Dostoyevsky).
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
It's also the title of a schlocky Lucio Fulci horror film, though the title appears to be an homage only.
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Hey, I happen to love that Fulci flick! It's fascinating when an intelligent and technically competent director has inescapably bad taste.