Re: RARA-AVIS: fictional beatings, James W. Hall

Reed Andrus (randrus@home.com)
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 16:46:54 -0700 BaxDeal@aol.com wrote:

> One of Hall's similarity's to CW, aside from the South Fla settings that are
> found in the Hokes, are his Troy Louden and Jr Frengeresque bad guys. In one
> of his books, the bad guy has a pain threshold of absolute zero. In another,
> or heck perhaps even the same one, everything runs together in my mind these
> days, the bad guy is dissolved in a vat of some kind of weird substance,
> except for his eyeballs, which end up floating on the surface.

Think you refer to BONES OF CORAL, his best book in my opinion. It's a
non-Thorne offering. I've never been able to connect with his
characterization of Thorne.

... Reed
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