> Has anyone read Douglas Winter's debut novel, RUN,
yet? Acclaimed by a few
> critics as the best hardboiled novel - stark, raw,
fast - to come along in a
> while (one review I read compared it to a cross
between Richard Stark and
> Quentin Tarantino), it sounds pretty good. Any
comments?
I read about 30 pages of it, here and there, while sitting in
one of B&N's plush armchairs -- then set it down. To me
it was ... okay, nothing more.
It's about the protagonist accepting a putatively undramatic,
illegal
'milk run' of guns to NYC that turns out to have been a
set-up to place blame on him for a political hit, leaving our
gun-running protagonist running from the cops while trying to
get the guys who set him up.
The author is respected in horror circles as a critic who
wrote a defitinitve critique of Stephen King. The beginning
is tight and fast-paced but after skimming the middle I
wasn't hooked to buy it, or care about the resolution. Your
mileage may vary.
-- # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 25 Mar 2000 EST