BaxDeal@aol.com
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:56:54 EST
1) as a boy I discovered DONALD HAMILTON and was never able
to read The Hardy Boys again.
2) years later, after cutting my teeth on Chandler,
Hammett and John D. MacD, and deciding I could read nothing
but genre and be quite content, I picked up two books by
JAMES M. CAIN and read them both the same day. I don't think
I have to mention which two these were.
3) a friend of mine who also subscribes to this list
then mentioned I should try Mr. ELLROY. whatever his faults
may be, he keeps my eyeballs on the page. on one Caribbean
vacation, I spent 3 days in a hammock doing nothing but
reading The Big Nowhere while my wife went to the beach, out
to restaurants, shopping...
4) I felt cheated when CHARLES WILLEFORD died. I still
feel cheated.
5) I've read and enjoyed to varying degrees most of
the other authors already mentioned by others. however, I
find I have books by many of them in my still to be read
pile. I can't say that whatever KENT HARRINGTON turns out
next will languish there very long.
John Lau
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