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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "frogprod"
<frogprod@...> wrote:
>
> I've been lurking here for years. I've never posted
mainly because
> the usual folks here are so knowledgable that they
generally post
> what I wanted to say before I get around to it, and
say it far
> better than I would have done anyway
>
> I've been a Lawrence Block fan for a long time,
especially the
> Scudder books. Somewhere in the past 10 years I
stopped reading the
> Scudders, but that's what happens with every series
I read - no
> matter how much I love the character, I think a
writer can only do
> so much with a series character, eventually even the
best ones turn
> into rote, and when Scudder stopped drinking , and
when even the
> threat of drinking became less terrifying, and when
he got a
> girlfriend, and became happy, well the books just
became less
> compelling to me.
>
You might want to give EVERYBODY DIES (a Scudder book) a try.
Personally, I think it's his last great book. I found it
absorbing and it's certainly a story when no character is
safe. I read it fully expecting it to be a swan song for the
series.
Simon Wood http://www.simonwood.net
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