Re: RARA-AVIS: Preaching
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:29:35 -0400 (EDT)
Kevin Smith said a sorta homophobic friend of his found Joseph
Hansen's
Brandstetter books too preachy. To preachy? I agree with Kevin
that
they are not. I always found it striking how few of the
gay-in-the-sexuality-sense characters in his books were
gay-in-the-happy-sense. I read them some time ago (liked them
very much
even though they all seemed to have the too-similar structure
of all of
the suspects passing through the murder scene, some before,
some after,
one at the time of, with Dave sorting it out; also found it
amusing that
his investigations never saved the insurance companies a dime
and
sometimes cost them more), but most of the characters are
pretty
miserable trying to hide their sexuality and, if I remember
correctly,
the crime usually hinged on someone protecting his non-gay
front.
Which, now that I think of it, a homophobe might take as a
preachy
message that if they were all out of the closet, no murder
would have
been committed, but I didn't. I also found it odd that, at
least, the
first few books prominently mentioned Hansen having a wife in
the
author's bio.
Mark
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