on 4/17/00 6:32 PM, William Denton at
buff@pobox.com wrote:
> On 17 April 2000, Hardboiled_Dick wrote:
>
> : Certain Prey was a bit of an odd duck. I first got
on to the series
> : with "Winter Prey" and soon read most of the books
but found a
> : "sameness" about them that I grew tired
of.
>
> I picked up one of the series because it was popular
on rec.arts.mystery,
> which, looking back, should have been reason enough
to avoid it. I
> thought it was dreadful. I couldn't imagine actually
reading all of them.
> Didn't seem hardboiled at all, either.
>
> Bill
My wife read a few Prey books finding them "adequate" for
reading while doing her obsessive, daily "riding the bike"
exercise thing. I tried to start one, found the narration
mediocre & unappealing. Every time I see another Prey
cover for sale in drugstores, and strip mall emporiums (which
is often) I wonder what the series has that attracts the mass
audience.
Keith
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