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Lawrence Block, Hit List

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber das könnte das erste Mal sein, dass ich einen schon von vorneherein als E-Book gekauften Band nochmal gelesen habe. Aber bei an die 200 Titeln auf dem Paperwhite wurde es eigentlich auch mal Zeit, und der zeitliche Abstand war auch lang genug. Und es zeigte mir auch einmal mehr, wie fabelhaft Block vor allem bei Dialogen ist.

"When I said I'd been picked for a jury, the first thing my sister-in-law said was maybe I'd be on TV. You know, if they panned the jury. Which I don't think they're supposed to, but who cares anyway? What's the big deal about having your face on a few million television screens?"
"I think it makes it real," Keller said. "You'll see some woman, her baby gets eaten by a coyote, and some reporter sticks a microphone in her face and asks her how she feels."
"And instead of telling him to go fuck himself, like you'd think a normal human being would do -"
"She answers the question and shares her pain with the world. People thinnk that's what they're supposed to do. They think you have to be on television if you get the chance, because it validates your experience."

(Lawrence Block, Hit List, 2000)