--- Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> wrote:
> I read Williams's RIVER GIRL about a year ago. I
just
> finished THE HOT SPOT (HELL HATH NO FURY). Great
book.
> Great writer. Hardboiled noir at it's best. He's
got
> the Chandler flair for simile and metaphor. I've
got
> DEAD CALM waiting on me, and I need to find
SCORPION
> REEF. I hear that his sea novels are some of his
best.
DEAD CALM is a rowdy read. I read his last book, MAN ON A
STRING back in the summer (the only title my library
stocked!). Good plot, good action, and good characters. THE
WRONG VENUS awaits me. He's solid prose stylist.
> I read WILD WIVES. Cynical humor and irony. It was
a
> good and entertaining book, but not as good as
the
> spectacular BURNT ORANGE HERESY. I still haven't
read
> a Hoke Moseley though. MIAMI HEAT sits on the
shelf
> waiting on me.
Speaking of the other "Charles the Great," BURNT ORANGE
HERESY was IMO a ripe satire of the artsy-fartsy set. And
there's one scene early in a Hoke Moseley novel had me
laughing so hard I thought I'd need stitches. Maybe it was
SHARK INFESTED CUSTARD.
His humor reminds me of Harry Crews. I'll look for WILD
WIVES.
Ed Lynskey
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