: He really does a nice balancing act, between character
interest and
: the driving plot.
I think he's an incredible writer, and his last five novels
rank high
on my list of all-time favourites. He can be brutally and
graphically
violent, though, and I know a couple of people who couldn't
make it
through just one book. Eye sockets and stuff.
If you're just starting the L.A. Quartet, you're in for a
treat.
Watch his style through the four books, and how he pares
things down
until he's left with only sentence fragments in the last
one.
Bill
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William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
"It is better to incur a mild rebuke than to perform an onerous task."
-- "Uncle" Oswald Hendryks Cornelius
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