Your loss. He's ten times the writer Block was at Block's best.
Patrick King
--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Ed McBain
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 10:26 AM
I enjoy McBain's short fiction (though not nearly as much as Block's) and
his early pseudonymous stand-alones (and a few of his McBain stand-alones) ,
but have yet to read any of his 87th Precinct series. Since I tend to have
an aversion to series (and, increasingly, detective fiction), I probably
never will.
Ron C.
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> From: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com] On
> Behalf Of logan keith (keith)
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:15 AM
> To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Ed McBain
>
> I've never really read McBain, maybe a book or two many many years ago.
But last
> week I picked up LEARNING TO KILL, a collection of his early works. This
comes
> almost exactly a year after loving Lawrence Block's ONE NIGHT STANDS &
LOST
> WEEKENDS, a collection of his early works. I am hoping for a comparable
> experience.
>
> Technically the stories may not be very good, but I am eager to see how
his chops
> develop over the course of the collection. Sort of an anthropological look
at crime
> fiction!
>
> Best, Keith Logan
>
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