{"id":726,"date":"2013-08-19T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2013-08-19T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:15:02","slug":"review-getting-off-a-novel-of-sex-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/review-getting-off-a-novel-of-sex-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10381196\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1320424607m\/10381196.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10381196\">Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1239723\">Jill Emerson<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/699337105\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Always been a sucker for hard-boiled fiction, especially the old pulps. Well, I say old, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re old yet. Jim Thompson\u2019s old, but I\u2019m only just getting into Thompson. Ross H. Spencer\u2019s old. Is Stephen King old? He\u2019s got a title in the Hard Case Crime library, and so does Lawrence Block. <\/p>\n<p>Seems there\u2019s this old pulp revival thing going on, and it\u2019s not enough to make a buck dusting off the oldies, we got guys writing new oldies too. Guys writing new oldies using their old pseudonyms. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Block wrote lesbian crime fiction under the name Jill Emerson ages ago, and for this new old stuff he\u2019s written a new book with that old name. I never read any of that old Jill Emerson stuff, so I can\u2019t tell you if this is more of the same.<\/p>\n<p>But I have read all of the John Keller novels, and I can assure you <i>Getting Off<\/i>, this novel, <i>is<\/i> more of <i>that<\/i> same. Same straight forward tone, same matter-of-fact attitude towards murder. But now there\u2019s sex. And there\u2019s long cheesy parts, which I guess is the way they did it back then. Almost cartoonish, nearly a parody.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a meager plot and an attempt at a morality, but the ending is too long and drawn out and there\u2019s enough coincidences tossed in to make it all too convenient and just a tad tiresome. I guess I can give that sort of thing a pass when I\u2019m indulging in some old pulp. But when it\u2019s new-old, it doesn\u2019t feel authentic. Just played out.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/699337105\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence by Jill Emerson My rating: 2 of 5 stars Always been a sucker for hard-boiled fiction, especially the old pulps. Well, I say old, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re old yet. Jim Thompson\u2019s old, but I\u2019m only just getting into Thompson. Ross H. Spencer\u2019s old. Is Stephen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/review-getting-off-a-novel-of-sex-and-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-bI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}