In a message dated 9/6/02 3:09:29 PM,
metroy@tamu.edu writes:
<< It was a fast read with some funny, disturbing and
memorable passages, but I don't rate it as highly as Mr. T
does. >>
What I rate high is Leonard's almost
unmatched skill in creating interesting people and
situations, and bringing them into full round as he tells
their stories through minimal description and masterful
dialogue. He delivers with accuracy the intensity and
intimacy of sexual attraction, rolls out the tension in
dangerously adversarial relationships, and displays the raw
horror of violent acts. He did it in "Out of Sight," he did
it in "Pagan Babies," and he's done it at least twenty other
times in the marvelous family of hard-boiled tales he's sent
our way over the years.
Jim
Blue
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