xterminal's review
5.0
Imagine a suicidal goth-obsessed Eastern European director wants to remake Any Which Way You Can. But the studio, in sending him the script, manages somehow to interleave the pages with parts of Deliverance, High Risk, and Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. The director receives the script, reads it, thinks it's a work of avant-garde genius, and films it.
Pinckney Benedict has written the novelization of that nonexistent film and called it Dogs of God. Vulgar, brutal, unassuming, twisted, and intensely fascinating in all the right places, Benedict has taken the modern-primitive concept, applied it in novel form, and succeeded all too well. A profoundly disturbing book, on my top 15 reads of '99 list.
Pinckney Benedict has written the novelization of that nonexistent film and called it Dogs of God. Vulgar, brutal, unassuming, twisted, and intensely fascinating in all the right places, Benedict has taken the modern-primitive concept, applied it in novel form, and succeeded all too well. A profoundly disturbing book, on my top 15 reads of '99 list.
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