Amen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Guthrie" <
allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 15,
2005 3:34 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Bruen and the
Tinkers
> If I hadn't already read it, your description would
have made me rush
> to the
> nearest bookshop and buy it. Different strokes,
Michael. Not everybody
> likes
> Guinness, nor should they.
>
> Al
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Etchison" <
etchison@mleconsulting.com>
> To: "Rara Avis List" <
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:24 AM
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Bruen and the Tinkers
>
>
>>
>> Several folks have warmly praised Bruen's The
Killing of the Tinkers
>> in
> the
>> last couple of weeks.
>>
>> I don't get it. I tried, but I didn't get
it.
>>
>> To my eye, the book is structured like this
[warning: SPOILER]:
>>
>> PI hits self on head with skillet.
>>
>> Someone kills Tinker A.
>>
>> PI hits self on head with saucepan.
>>
>> PI thinks about some loud half-talented rock
group. He thinks about
> George
>> Pelecanos. His thoughts about each are not very
interesting.
>>
>> Someone kills Tinker B.
>>
>> Lead Tinker insists that a single person is
killing the tinkers
>> because
>> they're tinkers.
>>
>> PI makes limp wisecrack, hits self on head with
waffle iron, says
>> he'll
> get
>> the killer.
>>
>> Someone kills Tinker C.
>>
>> PI feels bad about his headache, hits self on
head with branding
>> iron.
>>
>> For no apparent reason, PI gets a reading from A
Profiler.
>>
>> Profiler describes the killer as left-handed,
prone to spill his
> buttermilk,
>> who buttons his shirt from the top down and uses
washcloths with
>> stripes
> on
>> them.
>>
>> For no apparent reason, PI spends some time with
someone who is
> left-handed,
>> prone to spill his buttermilk, who buttons his
shirt from the top
>> down and
>> uses washcloths with stripes on them.
>>
>> PI hits self on head with cricket
bat.
>>
>> PI tells Lead Tinker that someone else did the
killings.
>>
>> After Lead Tinker takes care of the named
culprit, PI says, "Oops."
>> Hits
>> self on head with bootjack.
>>
>> Book ends.
>>
>> Michael Etchison
>
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