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

From: Joy Matkowski ( jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 11 Jan 2003


Gerald, the early Spenser is all I've read, because my local library had them when its books and the supermarket were my only sources. I suspect I didn't call him a yuppie then because the term, when it first existed, meant something different, but my opinion was the same. I think we'll have to agree to differ.

Joy, who's got a 19-year-old Chevy

"Gerald So" < gso@optonline.net> asserted:
> 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.

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