Peter Walker (pw@pw.cablenet.co.uk)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:39:33 +0000
I yawned through Law Blocks Scudder - Even The Wicked -
whilst sunning myself pool-side and for once was a tad
disappointed with him. Its 100 pages too long, too obvious by
half and a bit pointless to boot but the worst crime is he
rehashes an earlier plot - isn't there an early Scudder where
random murders turn out to be a Life Insurance scam? I think
I'm right but in any event the next one better had be as good
as 'they' say (well Kev Smith anyway and thats good enough
for me). Has anyone else read it and found it boring and a
tad over long? Next up was Falling Angel by the man with the
un-spellable surmane which - despite the preposperous plot -
I really enjoyed it. Good clean fun. Last - and by no means
least - was Edward Bunker's "Memoirs of a Renegrade". From
the author of four HB classics - stranglely not yet discussed
on this list - this is incredible. Growing up into crime -
youngest prisoner in San Qentin - knowing the likes of
tennesse willaims and aldous huxley - being incarcerated in
the meanest prisons and so on - not to mention one or two
films to boot - hard to put down. Coming out soon from No
Exit. Finally, an oddity - a Mark Timlin Si - Fi book called
Behold A Pale Horse. Mmmmm. Peter PS The long hot summer here
(In the UK) was made slightly more bearable by the screning
of The Sapranos -totally incredible TV.
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