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Sex and Violence in Hollywood
By Ray Garton
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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This breakout thriller by the master of horror will take its place on the shelf next to other Garton classics like Live Girls and The New Neighbor.
This blockbuster is a chilling combination of thrills, terror, black humor, plot reversals, and a climax so shocking it will leave you shaken.
Adam Julian, son of a Hollywood screenwriter, has a life many would kill for . . . and some would kill to keep. He is tangled in a web of forced sex, coerced into robbery, and it is only a short step to killing as a choice. At the center of the book is a sensational murder trial, which oddly resembles the O. J. Simpson case. The cast features an abrasive, starstruck female judge, blundering prosecuting attorneys, a nerdy defendant who reserves his right to silence, and Rona Horowitz, a pint‑size ball of fire of a defense lawyer. The defendant may be guilty, but energetic Rona tries one outrageous legal stunt after another in order to exonerate her client. Drenched in the glamour and the sleaze of highline and lowlife Hollywood, this satirical and entertaining look at the criminal justice system, turned inside out and upside down by showbiz at its best and worst, is a panorama of crime, corruption, and violence delivered with grim authenticity and hilarious awfulness.
This blockbuster is a chilling combination of thrills, terror, black humor, plot reversals, and a climax so shocking it will leave you shaken.
Adam Julian, son of a Hollywood screenwriter, has a life many would kill for . . . and some would kill to keep. He is tangled in a web of forced sex, coerced into robbery, and it is only a short step to killing as a choice. At the center of the book is a sensational murder trial, which oddly resembles the O. J. Simpson case. The cast features an abrasive, starstruck female judge, blundering prosecuting attorneys, a nerdy defendant who reserves his right to silence, and Rona Horowitz, a pint‑size ball of fire of a defense lawyer. The defendant may be guilty, but energetic Rona tries one outrageous legal stunt after another in order to exonerate her client. Drenched in the glamour and the sleaze of highline and lowlife Hollywood, this satirical and entertaining look at the criminal justice system, turned inside out and upside down by showbiz at its best and worst, is a panorama of crime, corruption, and violence delivered with grim authenticity and hilarious awfulness.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Garton definitely delivers on the title of his book. There is plenty of sex and violence.The story follows Adam Julian who has lived his whole life in the midst of Hollywood stardom. His father is a screenwriter of bad but highly successful films. Adam believes that his father killed his mother and is half planning on killing him. His plans start to move forward as his dad's new wife enters the picture along with her sexually charged and out-of-control daughter. After much of the previously mentioned sex and more than a tad of violence from a physically damaged friend-of-a-friend who lives in the desert with his pornographer father and sadist mother, Adam finds himself in a legal battle for his life. Fortunately he has Rona Horowitz on his side and she refuses to accept defeat.The characters might be too much at times but they are also fun to read about. You want to read about them and see what happens next. In all, the book is over the top, more than a little crazy and has some very strange events happening. I could easily say that this is only slight exaggeration of Hollywood itself and get away with the joke. Instead I will compare Garton to another favorite author: Joe Lansdale. If you've read any of the Hap and Leonard books by Lansdale, you will see the same degree of craziness and wide events happening. With Garton, we see it happening in Hollywood with movie stars rather than in the backwoods of east Texas. However you want to look at it though, this was an excellent book that I found very hard to put down. It's very highly recommended.