FREAKY DEAKY. ("Non-responsive, Your Honor!") Maybe because
it was my first Leonard, and I'm sentimental. But I also
enjoyed RUM PUNCH. However, I can name several dozen, perhaps
a hundred or so writers I'd put before Leonard for the
Nobel...he is no more the single transcendent genius of crime
fiction than anyone else...Algis Budrys, whose THE DEATH
MACHINE/ROGUE MOON disappointed Bill, in his "pop fic"
critical work once wrote that Leonard's work was less
cartoonish than Westlake's...in my experience, that's a wash,
maybe Westlake even has the less-cartoonish edge (even if
Westlake definitely has more of the Edwardian touch about his
work--Saki, Benson, that whole crowd--while Leonard
definitely knows how to portray the deceptively slack
character who's watching everything intensely). TM
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison I haven't
had good luck with Leonard. I attempted reading something
called GET SHORTY a long time ago and couldn't even finish
it. And that's unusual for me. I finish nine out of ten that
I start. A year or so ago I read 52 PICKUP, and I thought it
was better but nothing really special.
I'm ready to give him another shot. I've got KILLSHOT, STICK,
and UNKNOWN MAN #89. Which of these would you
recommend?
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