> I just picked up a boxload of books for
$1
A more than fair price!
Of the John D's, A BULLET FOR CINDERELLA is probably the
best. I've not read CRY HARD, CRY FAST, but have heard less
than complimentary remarks about it. The other two are T.
McGee adventures -- not bad, if you don't mind the
sermonizing.
A friend, the novelist James W. Hall, claims that LA BRAVA is
the best thing Leonard ever wrote. He used to use it in his
writing classes (back before he started writing novels
himself) to illustrate how to do this and that. Leonard made
a lot of fun of him for doing so, he claims. Again, I've not
read it, but I trust Jim's judgement.
Anything by Ross MacDonald is worth a look for his use of
prose. His plots are horribly repetitive, but he writes so
well that it almost doesn't matter.
Brett Halliday is uneven, but always entertaining.
Nice haul. PB
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