Joy Matkowski wrote:
> I've never read a Vachss. The ads and reviews always
sound pointlessly
> gruesome. Anyone have suggestions for the best one
to start with?
********** I liked his earlier Burke books but after a while
the propaganda element started to bore me and his FALSE
ALLEGATIONS was pathetic. I gave him another go with SAFE
HOUSE which was better but still only mediocre. I've read
nothing by him since then. Try one of the Burke's before
1995, such as FLOOD, BLUE BELLE, BLOSSOM, STREGA, HARD CANDY,
or SACRIFICE. The earlier the better.
And of course the books are left wing. Any leftist can point
out to you that any concept a right winger might hold
concerning child protection ends when they are born. Racist
dirty white boys with swastika-bearing flags hanging in their
garages are a common feature. And the good guys in the Burke
novels are a bizarre racial, cultural, and sexual-preference
mix that would leave a lefty ecstatic and a righty
shuddering. ;-)
miker
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