Re: RARA-AVIS: Block-McBain

From: Don Lee (donthepoet420@gmail.com)
Date: 06 Jan 2010

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    8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE is quite a bit better than any of those titles you mention and definitely worth a read.

    On 1/6/10, Patrick King <abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > wow -talk about "different strokes"!
    >
    > I've never been able to finish an 87th Precinct book and I've tried several-
    > and I think Block is one of the 2 or 3 best PI novelists of the modern
    > age... 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE and WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES are 2 of the
    > best of the century (though the more recent titles are weaker - still
    > worthwhile though) and Scudder is one of the most believable, effective and
    > approachable alcoholc characters anywhere in literature
    >
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    >
    > If you've read some of my other posts, you may realize I don't waste my
    > reading time. If a writer disappoints me, he seldom gets another chance.
    > With Lawrence Block, I read EVERYBODY DIES, THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS
    > BOGART & THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS... and really? You think these
    > are the most believable, effective and approachable alcoholic characters in
    > literature? Read Nelson Algren, please! Maybe I've just hit his 3 turkeys
    > but I didn't find these books believable in any way.
    >
    > Patrick King
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