I started with Tomato Red and then Muscle for the wing,
planning on continuing with Death of... and Give us a kiss.
But Tomato Red is the better of the two I've read. Muscle...
is fun and full of great one-liners but still light-weight.
Tomato Red is dark and fun and quite a bit teasing in that it
never really explodes, it just hints at it. The first
paragraphs of the first chapter are the most well-written I
have read in a long time. Many new writers are often likened
with Jim Thompson but that's just name-dropping for marketing
purposes. Tomato Red however is getting close in its country
quirkiness, somehow reminding me of Wild Town by
Thompson.
all the best/Mattias
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Chris M"
<cptpipes@...> wrote:
>
> William Denton wrote:
> >One last e-mail: if someone, like me, has never
read
> >anything by Daniel Woodrell, what's the best
book to
> >start with?
>
> With aplogies for contributing little more than "me
too" I would
recommend
> Give Us a Kiss as well. The Death of Sweet Mister is
a heartbreaker
and Woe
> To Live On is an experience of its own, but I prefer
the action and
humor in
> Give Us a Kiss
>
> Woodrell started with a detective series, and I have
all three of
those on
> my shelf but have only read the first one. From
comments on the list, I
> understand that each one of those is an improvement
on the one
before, so
> perhaps I should get around to the other
two.
>
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