I remember a flurry of emails a week or two back regarding
Bruen. I just finished his book _The Guards_ last night and
thought I'd post regarding it. It was a rather odd book, what
with the very short chapters and unique sentence structures
and so forth. Also, Bruen's detective, Jack Taylor, doesn't
really do a lot of detecting, but spends a lot of time
stumbling from one drink to another and alienating the people
around him. I was prompted to finally read the book after
seeing the recent film,
_Intermission_, sort of an Irish _Short Cuts_ or _Magnolia_
with crime thrown into the mix. I loved Colm Meaney's police
detective and hoped maybe I'd find something similar in
Bruen's novel. It wasn't a total loss, but I'm not really
sure if I'd want to read another Bruen. Are his books all
like this?
Craig Larson Trinidad, CO
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