probably a SPOILER:
Al and Kevin were discussing the length of Teran's GOD IS A
BULLET. Both Bill Crider and Terrill Lankford have mentioned
publishers complaining about a book being too short. With
this in mind, I wondered when I read GOD IS A BULLET if maybe
the book had been stretched to please the publisher. I
thought the book was rolling to a major showdown at the
safehouse where Case and Bob dealt with one of the cult
members and dug up a body and then torched the place. The
book was great fun and I liked it a lot, but after that scene
I lost a big chunk of the adrenaline rush and found the rest
to be just a bit off-tempo and awkward. I wonder if Teran
withdrew a major chunk of the climax from that scene and
spread it out over an additional hundred pages.
miker
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