I don't know if this is the same guy, but someone I respect
recommened EVERY DEAD THING by John Connolly. I found the
story to be grisly and convuluted and his prose style, to my
taste, almost impenetrable. In the end, I simply didn't
care.
But I like terse guys like say, Don Winslow. Or
conversational ones like Donald Harstad, to name a couple of
fairly new voices I've read lately.
And speaking of conversational prose styles, Elmore Leonard
these days is getting so breezy as to be almost non-existent.
Someone on the list recently said he consults more with his
Hollywood agent than his literary one. PAGAN BABIES and BE
COOL seem to bear out this theory as Dutch is now writing
roles instead of characters. And his plots can easily be
condensed into 120 pages of script.
John Lau
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