RARA-AVIS: Re: Bethany, Spenser, and Yuppies

From: Gerald So ( gso@optonline.net)
Date: 11 Jan 2003


Joy,

>Joy, who still doesn't see much similarity with that yuppie Spenser

I've only read one Bethany book so far, but have all of them TBR. I agree Spenser has been domesticated over the years, largely due to his rich girlfriend. He's gone from beer to wine, from a five-year-old Chevy with a leaky roof to a Bronco, but he wasn't always this entrenched.

While never as iconoclastic as Bethany, in the early books--THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT through A SAVAGE PLACE--Spenser was the underpaid, principled outsider.

Now if you've read the early Spenser and always thought Spenser a yuppie, that's another thing.

Gerald

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