In a message dated 16/01/97 05:50:01, you write: << Weren't the early Spenser books a lot different from the later ones? >> Oh yes. You could read them without laughing too much for a start. These days the books are formulaic in the extreme, and Hawk has become a deux ex machina to a ludicrous degree. V. Silly Peter - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca