At 09:16 PM 4/30/00 -0700, Etienne wrote:
>--- James Rogers <
jetan@ionet.net> wrote:
>
>
>Look into RA archives and you will find
intersting
>earlier discussions about this point.
>
>Keep reading John D. older works!
>
I thought that the
archives had a search feature, but apparantly not. I seem to
have been on the list since 11/97, though, so I probably saw
the discussions at the time and have just spaced them
out.
One of the reasons I
rated MacDonald pretty low was because the first Travis book
I read was _The Green Ripper_. Terrible; one of the worst
McGees, maybe the very worst. Didn't read another one for
years. I had read
_Neon Jungle_, which I liked, but partly because it was such
stereotypical Gold Medal stuff.
Slowly chewing my way
through _The Only Girl In The Game_ which seems very
good.
I'm not a huge Ross
McDonald fan either. I feel kind of bad about it, as the
press hype was so huge I'm afraid I'm missing something. Same
for Elmore Leonard.
James
P.S. One of The Drifters just got murdered. We'll have to
remember that next time we do a "who's the most hardboiled
doo-wop group" thread.
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