William Denton (buff@pobox.com)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:02:49 -0400 (EDT)
On 23 September 1999, Juha Lindroos wrote:
: Also, sorta related, has anybody read Willeford's WHIP
HAND ? I just
: finished it today and while it had a lot of CW's
touches and presence
: in it, it also lacked the finishing touch and is
probably the weakest
: (not to say bad, by any means) of his books I've
read.
That's the the one that was co-written, where his name didn't
make it onto the cover, right? I'm not surprised it was weak,
if some other fellow was messing around with it.
I recently read _No Experience Necessary_, and the first two
chapters really stand out. I checked, and they were written
by someone else.
(First chapter's a sex fantasy, and the second is a little
girl telling an old man about a guy in the park who's been
molesting her.) After that it becomes recognizably Willeford,
and we get what was later cannabilized for
_Sideswipe_. Good book, but not his best.
Bill
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