Brian, I agree with you on this one; I'll even go further,
and have to say that "Eight Million Ways to Die" did not
convince me totally either. It's too superficial to be a very
good lit. novel on alcoholics and their world and it's too
off target, and not very original, to be a very good H-B/noir
novel. Even the end of this novel is not very good: so
simplistic that it looks like a Hollywood general public
thing of the 50's. It's of course very professionally
written, and the Scudder series remains what Block did best
(up to 8 million, included).
I'll even worsened my case: I always felt that Block is an
overrated writer. This does not means he's not good at all,
he just isn't *very* good. And not on par with the reputation
of excellence built on him these last years.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
Brian Evankovich wrote:
>For me - and I don't mind being in the minority on
this one - the Scudder
>series ended with "Eight Million Ways to Die". I read
the next two
>installments, but they just didn't work for me as
much as I wanted to like
>them. Maybe Block will take a break from Scudder for
the next book. That
>would indeed be nice.
>
>
>
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