Ruminations of a meandering mind

Brighton Rock is among Graham Greene's best works. 30 pages into the book, you wonder what makes this novel so special, then as you read on, the characters grow on you. Perhaps the book's most surprising factor is that it rides on a wafer thin plot and the story looks dated in parts( thanks to the umpteen number of writers who have attempted this genre in recent times). To compensate for the plot, the novel has characters that are brilliantly etched. The lead character Pinkie is depicted as a person without any feelings of remorse, but such is the writer's brilliance that he evokes in the reader a feeling of empathy towards Pinkie. Without resorting to profanity of any sort Greene spins a compelling yarn and I still maintain after reading this work that Greene can never write a bad book. A critic on reading this work remarked " Entertaining he always is but Comforting never".