--- Bill Crider <
macavityabc@gmail.com> wrote:
> William said, " I was just reading The Chill
by
> Macdonald and I'm not going
> to bother to finish it. It's really
boring."
>
> When I discovered Ross Macdonald in the early
'60s,
> I couldn't read his
> books fast enough.
To each their peach said some drunken fool somewhere. I
remember reading Macdonald years ago and liking him. The list
of writers that I loved in the '60s and now wouldn't bother
with gets longer even as my memory shortens. Recently I've
just had a major breakdown over mysteries and The Chill is
more mystery than semi-boiled detective. I read a mystery by
Laura Lippman and it was dreadful, just dreadful, and then
Macdonald and there was someone else in there and I just had
this bubble rambling around in my brain, bouncing and sliding
and ripping up all interest in contrived clues and convienent
herrings and all that plodding plotting that leads to a
nowhere I don't want to be in . . .
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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