--- Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> wrote:
> Thanks James and Doug, for your comments
on
> Pendleton. I wish I could have got
> one of
> the very early ones to read, but #37 was the best
I
> could
> do here locally, and buying from Abebooks
almost
> guaratees
> a $4 shipping charge in addition to the cost of
the
> book,
> so 75 cents sounded like a bargain.
Of course it depends where you live, but it's not hard to
find Pendleton in thrift stores and the like. Check your
local Salvation Army, for instance.
Executioner novels sometimes come up on ebay, too.
> And noting your comment on Pendleton being
camp,
> Doug:
>
> In some of this older stuff, it's hard to tell
where
> the
> seriousness leaves off and the camp begins. Out
of
> the
> last six books I've read, two were outright
accused
> of being
> jokes: Vian's I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and Hallas's
YOU
> PLAY
> THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP. And I've
been
> working my
> way through Bellem's HIGH ADVENTURES #60
collection,
> and
> although I absolutely love them, it's pretty
darned
> hard to
> take them seriously.
>
> miker
I haven't read the Vian or Bellem, but I've read PLAY THE
BLACK. I know it was intended to be a kind of a put-on, but I
think that novel can be appreciated straightforwardly.
THE EXECUTIONER series wasn't *intended* to be a put-on --
indeed, the early books, at least, take themselves very
seriously -- but IMO it's hard to read them nowadays as
anything else BUT an unintentional joke.
Once you get to it you'll see what I mean. :)
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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