Norman gosney

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Not only the best English gangster film ever made, but also one of the finest works on : 1. identity. 2. Specific time and place (London1969) 3. Drug use captured on film. 4. Groundbreaking cinematography, editing and art direction 5. The end of the hippie dream. When you get to see this movie, make sure it's not the standard copy, which dubs much of the Cockney gangster banter, so vital to the reality of the gangster scenes, into voices thought to be more understandable to American audiences (who never saw it anyway)

I read this when it first came out, and while it aint Shakespeare, it entertains several novel and spunky ideas, and employs unusual methods of writing about them...was pretty much universally panned by critics at the time, so i lowered my expectations when i recently dug up a copy Re-reading it, i was pleasantly surprised how well it held up, and it did not bring the disappointment one gets when a fond memory turns out to be faulty, or formed when one was younger (and more impressionable?) Surprised this has not been used as the basis for a film or TV production.