Re: RARA-AVIS: Reading lists

From: David White ( dpwhite@eden.rutgers.edu)
Date: 22 Mar 2000


I don't know about you guys, but I considered myself a fan of Ross MacDonald, but I had a hard time reading a few of his novels after reading most of the tohers... I had a tough time getting through THE UNDERGROUND MAN and SLEEPING BEAUTY... I prefer his earlier others and having found myself liking the earlier ones better (even the BARBAROUS COAST)...if you read one of the later MacDonalds you are pretty much going to get the idea of what he is all about...

-Dave

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Douglas Greene wrote:

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> I may out of place, but I have to say that one of the major problems that I've
> found with academic treatments of the mystery genre is that the author hasn't
> read enough--s/he's tried only the 2 or 3 best or most famous works by an
> author. Ross Macdonald, for example, reads quickly. Why not have the Ph.D.
> candidate read the entire oeuvre? His dissertation, or oral comps, will be much
> better.
>
> Doug Greene
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