--- William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone else picked up anything good
lately?
>
Traded a friend of mine a copy of some forgettable novel for
the Black Lizard reprint of W.L. Heath's VIOLENT SATURDAY.
Heath's book isn't quite the classic Ed Gorman (in his
introduction) makes it out to be, but it's very enjoyable
nonetheless. Bank robbers try to hit a bank in a small town,
but things go very wrong. A nice blend of naturalism and
genre fiction -- oddly enough, Heath's treatment of the
subject matter reminded me a lot of Stephen King. If King
wrote crime novels in the mid-Fifties this is the sort of
thing I think he'd come up with.
Tried to read Thomas Dewey's HOW HARD TO KILL, but for some
reason just couldn't get into it. I've only read a few of
Dewey's "Mac" novels, but as far as I can tell they alternate
between Very Very Good and Sleepy. I'm afraid HOW HARD is one
of the sleepy ones.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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