Carrie Pruett <
pruettc@hotmail.com> noted:
" Lehane is always having to talk about how Boston is
actually a relatively safe, low-crime city just like he has
to talk about what a great family he came from, since people
are apparently constantly reading "Drink" and assuming that
his dad beat him -"
Hmm, I wonder if readers confuse the
author with the protagonist more often with first-person
writing.
CP: "No dispute that "Drink" is a gorey book and not for
everybody. If you found this one hard to take, in fact it
might be the least extreme of all the P&A books. ("Mystic
River" is in a different style, with some crime scene gore
but relatively little violence)."
It isn't gory in that sense that it
dwells pruriently. But the body count! By the fourth book or
so, the population of Boston must be depleted to the extent
that the characters can stop complaining about the lack of
parking spaces.
Joy, who has _Shape of Snakes_ in the on-deck circle
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