At 12:29 PM 11/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>The Grofield novels, with their lighter and humorous
tone, seem like much of
>the same-ol'-same-ol' and I've never much cared for
them...I suppose in the
>same way Westlake's Dortmunder novels have never done
much for me.
The Dortmunder novels are very uneven. I thought "Why Me" was
hysterically funny, but a couple of the others, especially
the one about trying to get the treasure out of the
lake
(can't remember its name), were virtually unreadable.
Ray
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