Goodbye, Friend
Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet

3.5 As opaque as they generally were, this 1969 screenplay-novel is still a bit of a departure from his earlier psychological mysteries. Told in very short scenes of visual set and dialogue, it takes a while to pierce and begin piecing a story together, which when combined with dated mores didn't ma......more

this author pisses me off so much it makes me wanna endure being a woman in the french 60s just to have the opportunity to kick him in the balls......more

We have all read novels which aspire to be film scripts (a depressing phenomenon), but here is one which actually is a film script. At a mere 122 pages of pared back scene setting and dialogue, the book becomes an intensely visual and auditory experience. The story of two veterans of the Algerian Wa......more

El format és guió cinematogràfic. M'ha passat com quan he llegit teatre. Trobo a faltar l’embolcall de la novel·la. La trama és enginyosa. Em sembla una oda a la lleialtat. A no delatar-se sota cap circumstància. Honor entre lladres. Hem vist el film del 1968 L’àudio era dolent. La direcció no ens ha a......more

absolute firecracker of an adapted screenplay; practically rewatched the entire film in real time while blasting through this. yeah...you gotta be a real friendless individual to hate this one. shit fuckin' rules!......more