Re: RARA-AVIS: Books I couldn't finish

From: Charlie Stella ( CharlieOpera@aol.com)
Date: 07 Feb 2005


And I feel your pain
> with THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE. It's an important
> milestone in the hardboiled genre, so I plowed my way
> through to the finish, but I found it drab and dull.
> I didn't give a rat's ass what happened to anybody in
> the book.
>
> miker
>
>

drab and dull? Eddie Coyle? Madonna mia ... is this the end of Rico?

I plowed my way through at least 50 times (read it every year at least once, sometimes several times) ... drab and dull?

Where's my crack pipe when I need it?

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