Hi, Jeff,
Sorry to hear you didn't like the book; obviously, different
people will like different things, and that's fine. I can
tell you, though, that many people don't agree with you.
Literally every week I get e- mail messages from people
complimenting TWO FOR THE MONEY and asking us to reprint more
of the novels in the Nolan series -- and we certainly don't
get messages like that in response to every title we
publish.
I'm not saying you should have liked it, of course, but lots
of people did like it, so I feel comfortable describing your
reaction as idiosyncratic rather than typical.
Best, Charles
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer"
<jvorzimmer@a...> wrote:
> Just finished my 6th Hard Case Crime, Two for the
Money (The 5th
released)
> and I have to say, up til this one, they've all been
really good.
The two
> novels, Bait Money and Blood Money, under one cover,
by Max Allan
Collins
> were disappointing, even for a first and second
novel. The plots
are okay
> and the characters unique, but the writing is bad.
Judging from the
quality
> of the other reprints and the originals in the HCC
line, I'm
surprised they
> found these titles worthy of inclusion. Granted,
it's certainly not
enough
> to turn me off the series, but damn it was difficult
getting 378
pages of
> Collins' writing. I'm sure his writing improved
later in his
career. I don't
> know. This is all I've read. I could give examples
of specific
dialogue that
> was so bad it made me laugh, but I don't want to
dwell on the
negative.
> Sorry, Charles, one strike.
>
> Jeff
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