HOPE TO DIE didn't bother me as much as it did some
people.
That said, it was a major let down after EVERYBODY DIES,
which in and of itself would have been a good coda to the
series.
I might have liked HOPE better if it wasn't a Scudder
novel.
Jim Winter
Northcoast Shakedown
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0975857185/qid=1110288533/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2029551-1867167?v=glance&s=books
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Miller" <
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2005 8:13 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: All the Flowers
>
> I was among the Block fans who hailed EVERYBODY DIES
as a vastly
underrated
> triumph and HOPE TO DIE as a disappointment
bordering on tragic (and said
so
> in a review I wrote for Mystery News). So, I picked
up FLOWERS with a
fair
> amount of nervousness, particularly when I flipped
through the pages and
saw
> all that italicized printing. I knew Block had gone
back to the
alternating
> voices.
>
> As Kevin indicated, it ain't as bad as HOPE TO DIE
and isn't nearly as
good
> as its predecessor. I admit that I've spent more
time thinking about this
> book than I anticipated. What I've come to believe,
though, is that while
> it falls pretty squarely in the middle of the pack
of Scudder novels, it
> could be a great way to end the series, if that is
Block's intent. I feel
> much the same way about The Godfather, Part III. Not
a great film on its
> own, but a wonderful coda to the entire
saga.
>
> Steve Miller
>
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