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Title: Resentment: A Comedy by Gary Indiana ISBN: 0385493363 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.43

Rating: 2
Summary: Partially Hysterically, Very Much A Bad Souffle That Falls
Comment: In "Resentment," Gary Indiana brings a writer on an oddessy through Los Angeles during the time of the "Martinez Brothers' Trial" a/k/a 'the Trial of Lyle and Eric Melendez.'

Other than managing to keep my interest in the book in Indiana's humorous presentation of the Martinez trial -- especially a rocklingly funny, albeit tasteless, crime scene analyst called to testify for the defense -- who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome -- I could not find myself very interested in the odd sub-stories taking place during the same period.

While there was layer upon layer of sidebar stories woven into the Melendez trial -- each involving supposed life in Los Angeles; a life of bizarre relationships, mindlessness, drug altered thinking, AIDS, and all kinds of other issues -- these stories failed to be coherent or even interesting.

Indiana might best have served the reader by simply covering the "Martinez trial;"his humor brought to this portion of the story offers lots of insight into the ridiculous angles of defense strategy, which did in fact surround the real trial of the deadly duo!

Overall, kind of weak and very disjointed, but worth a read if you followed, and continue to be interested in, various points of view on the Menendez brothers' and their twisted lives.

Rating: 1
Summary: gross and disgusting
Comment: Still haunted by scenes I wish I'd never encountered. A comedy? Not even an amusing satire.

Rating: 5
Summary: Ultrafantabulous!
Comment: Like some 19th century Russian, Indiana grapples with BIG issues of morality and the human condition. In his epic vision, Los Angeles comes across like Mortville, the nightmare town from John Waters' masterpiece Desperate Living. The hapless characters, each rendered frighteningly believable by witty, insightful prose, are all on collision courses with each other's wanton perversity and unchecked megalomania. Wickedly funny and unsentimental, Indiana is never unempathetic as he unflinchingly depicts the car crash of contemporary society. Can't we all get along? Perhaps not.