Shot, Direct, Canons [Gaganymede]

Shot, Direct, Canons

22 October 2008 at 15:51
Music, cinema, TV, books...

I had talked about In Situ, the first book of the trilogy of Patrick Bouvet. Shot and Direct are the following.

Image credits: Editions de l'Olivier

Image credits: Editions de l'Olivier

These two books insist on terrorism and the media coverage of events. It seems like they have been less worked on than the first one. first of all, they are shorter. Shot, written in 2000, is focused in the assassination of Kennedy. The surprise of this book is that the last pages talk about a terror attack on the World Trade Center, as if the author expected the 9/11 tragedy... As a result, Direct, written in 2002, is all about 9/11, still in this weird prose. But this prophetic side doesn't make the books more interesting, who don't bring anything to the trilogy in the end. Shame.

Image credits: Editions de l'Olivier

from the same author, I also read Canons, thinking it would be a novel. But no, it's still poetry, which is a shame, I would have liked to see what a novel from Patrick Bouvet would have been. You retrieve the style of In Situ. Nice to read, but not to be remembered.

It doesn't change the fact that I still want to read Chaos Boy!