![]() Some of the better sections for me were Mick Vale: "Mr. These segments range from being wildly engaging and page turning to tedious, self-indulgent and pretentious. The problem is interpersed between the "Lost Angels" vignettes, chronicling the trio's wanderings throughout LA, are unrelated stories about random people. Sounds promising doesn't it? And it should have been. The novel then rewinds ten days earlier as we the readers follow the events that lead this trio to commit this act of violence. It opens with Orin, Lisa, and Jesse, a ragtag trio of despondent lost souls, standing on a bluff overlooking the L.A. Thus, I removed a star from my initial 4 star rating that was based on my memory of reading it. ![]() Now, re-reading it 22 years laters, it's neither as good as I remember it being nor (as I revisit Rechy's work) is Rechy as good of a writer as I thought he was. I had never read anything so matter-of-fact in its depiction of sexually graphic gay and straight sex. ![]() I guess as a 17 year old gay teen reading Bodies and Souls had a lasting impact on me. ![]()
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