In a message dated 03/21/2005 6:39:22 AM, Bill Denton
writes:
> He's done it again, after doing that in HOPE TO DIE,
the previous Scudder?
> After so many books in the first person, I wonder
what's made him change.
> Scudder is the core of them all, and his voice and
the way tells the
> stories is what makes them. You really feel
you get to know him over the
> years.
>
There was more of Scudder's sensibility in Small Town or
whatever his post 9/11 eulogy for New York was titled than in
All the Flowers Are Dying. I don't know if introducing a
cartoonish serial killer in Hope to Die and returning him in
All the Flowers is a marketing ploy or whether Larry Block is
genuinely interested in serial killers, but I hope he doesn't
do it again. There's no room: you have Scudder in the moment,
Scudder's memories, Manhattan, Elaine, Scudder's sidekick the
computer diva, and Larry Block's enchanting way with voices:
the woman who hires Scudder to follow her boyfriend is pitch
perfect, and the scene where she hires him is low-key but a
person could learn a semester's worth about writing from it.
Betsy
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