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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
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> Mario,
>
> Is Word Made Flesh the first novel of O'Connell's
you read? Wow,
> they're all dark, but that's by far the darkest. I
recently picked up a
> used copy of the first, Box Nine, to introduce a
friend to the series.
> He became intrigued when I rambled on about it one
day, and he doesn't
> usually read crime fiction, doesn't read much
fiction of any kind.
Actually, I had read about a third of Box Nine, but the
reading was aborted by a trip and I never finished it. The
reason I didn't pick it up again is that right after the
return trip I got ahold of Michael Pollan's _The Omnivore's
Dilemma_, which absorbed me quite a bit. A disturbing
nonfiction book... about the corn economy, meat and what we
eat. Very disturbing. If Mel Brooks ever gets around to
writing a musical on this subject, the song "Cornholed by
Corn" will be as big a hit as "Springtime for Hitler".
Anyway, I'm donating the idea.
> And thanks for pointing out the short story. I
didn't know he had any.
> I'll have to check it out.
I just looked it up in the shelves. It's in the 2004 edition
of Best American Mystery Stories (edited by Nelson DeMille).
The story is _The Swag at Doc Hawthorne's_. By the way, that
volume also has fine stories by raravians Dich Lochte and Rob
Kantner.
Best,
mrt
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