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The Shark-infested Custard (Canongate Crime Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Charles Willeford (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 319 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Crime (12 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841950262
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841950266
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 896,251 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford."


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5.0 out of 5 stars A hoot from beginning to end, 7 Mar 2001
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The scary and funny thing about Willeford's 4 anti-heroes in "Shark Infested Custard" is how easy they perform and justify horribly amoral acts and how easily we accept the inevitability of those acts. Willeford paints brilliant characters whose ambitions seem to centre round hedonistic habits with no responsibility. Their attitude to and treatment of female partners is brutally impersonal, little evolved from caveman and yet they are amusing and at times fundamentally likeable. Hank's psychological profiling is hilarious. This is a good argument for tighter controls on guns in USA. Tarrantino should buy up the film rights quickly.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Charles Willeford's Best Book, 21 Nov 1997
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This review is from: Shark Infested Custard (Mass Market Paperback)
Willeford himself considered this his best book and if you read it you'll see why. Technically a novel, the book is really short storie with the same characters--four sociopathic swingers in Miami. Set in the seventies, the plot may have been too risque for its time, but with movies like Pulp Fiction and In the Company of Men invading our pop culture the bleak story is more timely than ever. A masterpiece of crime fiction.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Did Tarantino read this?!?, 13 Sep 2003
Pulp fiction, was never criticised as being before its time, all though Shark infested custard, surely would've been, the intercrossing style of narrative bears unusaul simmilarities with a certain palme d'or winner, The storys brief and poignant entertain and assist the musketeers all for one style premise, painting an entertaining picture of male america
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