Timothy S. Oliver (CSEM@zianet.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:05:13 -0700
Lehane is predictable and contrived. Though he dearly wants
his character to be Spencer, he isn't. The dame keeps letting
her husband beat on her, yet the hero just mopes about it.
Any self-respecting dick (read knight in tarnished armor)
would take care of that little problem without dropping the
ash off his gasper.
It's like someone entered all the elements of hard-boiled
fiction into a computer. The computer generates a story and
voila, Lehane.
Mark Blumenthal wrote:
> I read A Drink Before the War, and Darkness, Take my
Hand is in my tbr pile.
> I thought the former unpolished but powerful. For
the most part the the book
> has the right feel. As Lehane says in the interview
his picture of the
> Dorchester section of Boston is as it was, not the
way it is now.
> Gentrification and some loss of ethnic identity have
changed it.
>
> Is Angela Gennaro a hardboiled detective? I would
say she is, but I'm upset
> at Angie meekly allowing her husband to beat her
until she stops him at the
> end of the book.
>
> Here's a question for the authors on this list. Is
there a reason other than
> infringinging upon copyrights that the Boston
newspapers are called the Trib
> and the News instead of naming them correctly the
Globe and Herald? As a
> native Bostonian this jars me that a book that tries
to create an authentic
> atmosphere does this.
> Mark Blumenthal
>
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