--- M Blumenthal <
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net> wrote:
> If he wants to have his
> characters not age, that's fine, but he doesn't
have
> to provide dates that
> make the image impossible.
This has always bothered me about Spenser, too. It seems to
me that novels about the aging Spenser still trying to be the
toughest on the block, still doing all the things he thinks
are important, could potentially be an excellent piece of
characterization.
Too bad we'll never see it.
> In
> another plot line he is to help a woman
being
> stalked. The stalking plot
> is just embarassingly
> bad.
And is practically lifted from WALKING SHADOW, which makes it
worse. Parker apparently never feels that women are actually
stalked--any time a woman complains about a stalker, she's
lying. However, the man who complained in WALKING SHADOW
about being stalked was, in fact, being stalked.
Hmmmm...
G.
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