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The Insatiable Spider Man
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Rating:  -
'Destined to be a cult writer' says the TLS,but 'The Insatiable Spiderman' misses the bus.
Yes, it tells of the seedier side of life in Cuba, but this is mostly Gutierrez talking of his sexual conquests and desires. And like hearing anyone go on and on about their sex life-unless you're an adolescent virgin-it soon becomes tiresome and boring.
Burroughs wrote about drugs,Algren of Division Street Chicago,Wright of Black Chicago and Kerrouac of free living. All cult writers as they took you into their world and made you see things from a different perspective.
Gutierrez fails to deliver.The causes of grinding poverty,life under Castro,pathos for the people he writes of hardly exist.
A big dissapointment.
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