THE COMEDIANS is really good. Greene hammers things home just a little too hard, a little too obviously, and it lacks the stellar passages at the beginning and end of Brighton Rock (though it also lacks Brighton Rock‘s slack middle section); but there’s a lot about this book I like. I stuck it on the reading list just because it’s Graham Greene + Haiti, thus = very interesting to me. It’s hard to explain why–especially without going into detail about the plot–but in the end it was much more than just standard Greenery in Port-au-Prince.