Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-boiled

Mario Taboada (matrxtech@sprintmail.com)
Sun, 07 Jun 1998 12:32:38 +0000 Dick Tartow:

<<Will Sue Grafton be read or reprinted 50 years from now?>>

I somehow doubt it. She is an excellent plotter and a fine prose writer
in the plainspoken style. However, the character of Millhone is (to my
skeptical mind) not sufficiently interesting to survive that long. I
suspect that Millhone appeals mainly to the yuppie sectors of the
eighties and nineties (of the Reagan and Clinton variety, respectively)
- but who knows what future generations will think of her?

I'd better get of the futurology soapbox before it starts raining
tomato(e)s...

Regards,

Mario Taboada
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