On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Mark Sullivan wrote:
> I've seen some praise for Marvin Albert on the list,
so I finally dug
> out the original paperback Stone Angel which I've
had for a long, long
> time. I was a bit disappointed. Pierre Ange seemed
to be an all too
> convenient, and without any real conflict or
uncertainty, amalgam of
> French and American traits, making him more a
collection of quirks than
> a real character. The plot also seemed to float back
and forth between
> a PI novel and a thriller about terrorism. Do the
later books in the
> series improve? Or is Albert's rep built on his
earlier books before
> this series?
I agree with you on this (even though you don't seem to say
what book you were reading). Marvin Lachman claims that the
Stone Angel books are the best Albert has ever written, but
to my mind they are only better-than-mediocre. But the older
ones I've read from Albert have also been just that. Maybe he
had such a long career (over fourty decades!) that people
want to remember him for that.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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