Yes, even the titles are funny.
> Angel MacLean by Mike Ripley
It's a shame his books are not more plentiful in the US,
although St.
Martain's is printing some of them.
> The Trace/Digger books by Warren Murphy
Yeah, why did he stop publishing these?? Suppose it was
because he began
making movies??
> Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich (so shoot me! She's
funny!)
I have never understood "funny" in this. I love the
grandmother and wish
she had her own book, but the whole thing reminds me of THE
NANNY show.
> Almost anything by Carl Hiassen (in fact, when he was
on 60 Minutes a few
> weeks ago, he even made Florida's corruption look
funny)
Yes, I reviewed one of his books once and had a question, so
I just
called the newspaper and -got him- he had me in stitches
before I could
hang up and he wasn't anxious to get off the phone. I saw at
a signing
in Denton, Texas [yes, look that up on the map] and he even
recalled
this. He signed book marks cheerfully for a lady who said she
had read
all his books from the library.
>
> it an even scarier thought is that they didn't know
they were funny).
I don't think they knew they were funny. Perhaps it is now
looking back
at then and the then that was then.
> Red Diamond by Mark Schoor
This was a parody and I think he meant it as such. I thought
this was a
pseudynom??
and Steve Martin's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, as much tribute
as
parody.
>
> Oh, and The Rockford Files, a TV show that spoofed PI
shows the way
> Maverick spoofed westerns.
This is an example of "then" and "now". I never thought those
were
parodies--I thought they were just another show at the time.
Shows what
I knew -then-.
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