RARA-AVIS: Catching Up
James & Livia Reasoner (liviajames@itexas.net)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:08:55 -0500
I'm back on the list and have a few quick comments about last
week's
stories. "The Bobby-Soxer" is a good little story with a twist
ending that
I didn't see coming. I've read some of Craig's Pete Selby
police
procedurals and enjoyed all of them. Now a confession: I've
read very
little of Davis Goodis's work, though I have nearly all of his
novels in my
collection. Now I'm going to have to read them, after being
thoroughly
impressed by "Black Pudding". Great pace and characters, a
brutally
effective fight in the back seat of the car--"His eyes opened
very wide and
his head snapped sideways and he was through for this night and
all
nights."--and an ending that's not totally bleak. I liked this
one a lot.
I'm going back and catching up on the stories in the first
half of the
book, but I probably won't comment on them unless something
really catches
my eye.
It's good to have Rara-Avis back. I got addicted to it in a
hurry.
James Reasoner
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