: Every time he's [Ross Macdonald] mentioned here, all sorts
of
: opinions come up (from the very positive to the quite
: negative). Personally, I have cooled my enthusiasm about
him a bit,
: but I am still grabbed immediately by his books, no matter
how many
: times I've read them.
My enthusiasm's cooled and I don't really get grabbed any
more. As
I've probably said before, I read a whole bunch of Lew
Archers one
summer and by the end the sameness of all the plots was too
much.
One thing I did appreciate was the intricacy of the plots.
I've
always liked complicated plots, and Macdonald's, which could
involve a
family (plus identity switches) over a generation or more,
were quite
something as I remember. I took notes on one but couldn't get
it into
a nice format on paper, with a family tree and arrows
indicating who
did what to who. I wonder if such a thing would work better
on the
web.
Anyway, Dave, I'm glad to hear you like the Lew Archers. Have
you
read any of Macdonald's non-Archer material, like _Blue
City_?
P.S. I'm reading some non-fiction right now, but I'll be
starting
_Postman_ soon.
Bill
--
William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
"Let's keep the party polite."
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