Gerald So (gso@optonline.net)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:31:41 -0500
Hello, all.
Actually, Kevin, I'm with you.
NEVER STREET was my first exposure to Estleman/Walker.
Estleman does a good job with the setting and Chandleresque
metaphors, but after a while the metaphors--and Walker
himself--seemed dated. It was as if Estleman were trying to
right an homage to Chandler or a period piece (only he
wasn't).
When I called Walker an
anachronism in an earlier message, I was being derogatory. As
Kevin said, this time around, the schtick doesn't play. For
me, NEVER STREET was slow-going and hard to follow. In many
ways, it mimicked the cheesy, flawed film noir at the center
of its plot.
Gerald
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