Trying sometimes too hard to be clever and degenerating into the literary equivalent of the strange-bedfellows buddy-flick, this cheaper offering does not do much to sponsor the author's talents.The nice thing about his structure is that one can cherry-pick.
"I say the only guy upset today is Arnie because he's not here with all his buddies," Strange said.
The politics were strange: the two men were college buddies at Texas A&M and, later, political rivals — running against each other in a high-profile race for lieutenant governor in 1998 — and, after the scars got old, buddies again.
But Max's ostentatious supportiveness is another kind of thoughtlessness, as the reader can see from his tone-deaf attempts to become buddies with the serious, strange, withdrawn Ellton.
DREAMCATCHER -- Lawrence Kasdan, generational spokesman ("The Big Chill"), tries his hand at a Stephen King thriller with this feature about a group of hunting buddies who discover something strange and sinister in the woods.
"Don't tell anyone, buddy, O.K.?" I considered the strange circumstances that would deliver an adolescent with a loaded gun to the North Pole and how a subsequent shooting could, in any way, be deemed "sort of an accident".
Now I not only owned a piece of art that hung on my wall but gained a cool buddy who lived in that strange artist world that has always intrigued me.
But once you're settled in, relax on the rooftop terrace where the cool breezes and buddy mood will erase all the unknowns of travelling in strange lands.
