----- Original Message ----- From: "Robison Michael R CNIN"
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Robison_M@crane.navy.mil>
> Was it you, Al, that mentioned you had
read
> O'Hara's APPOINTMENT TO SAMARRA, and when you looked
at it
> here recently you didn't much care for it and
attributed it
> to hardening of the emotions due to an overdose of
hardboiled?
> I started it today. Its set in an interesting time
period,
> at the beginning of the Great Depression. And I
notice it's
> published in 1934, same year as Cain's
POSTMAN.
That was me. I like a lot of action in my books these days (I
always did, but I used to have a higher tolerance level for
interior dialogue). That's not to say APPOINTMENT's a bad
book, merely one which takes a long time to get where it's
going.
Al
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