Al Guthrie wrote:
>For what it's worth, I thought "God.." was a
well-written, entertaining,
>compact thriller. Hardboiled but not in the least bit
noir.
Well, granted, it was a thriller. And we can argue until the
cows come home about whether it was well-written or
entertaining, but gee, Al, compact?
It's something like twice the length of an old Gold Medal
PBO. It may be a lot of things, but it's not compact. Part of
my problem with it, in fact, was how overwritten it was, how
he never used a sentence when a bloated paragraph or three
would do. In fact, some editor taking a weedwhacker to the
damn thing might have made it a much better book.
As for Boston not having his picture taken, well, maybe he's
a she. That would sure play havoc with at least some of his
fans.
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