I've read 3 of the Jane Whitefield books to date. They are entertaining and
suspenseful enough, but I like Perry's standalone novels better. I think
they tend to have more interesting characters and situations.
Stephen Burridge
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:30 PM, <BaxDeal@aol.com> wrote:
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>
> I've been going through the works of Thomas Perry at a pretty rapid clip
> since the very positive NY Times review of his most recent novel a few
> weeks
> ago. The best I've read so far might be the recent "Fidelity", whose 2
> main
> characters are a PI's widow and a hit man. Perry's first novel "The
> Butcher's Boy", which won an Edgar, also featured alternating segments
> about
> a female novice investigator and a contract killer, oddly enough. A lot of
> his books have female viewpoint characters; Perry seems to me to do the
> female characters pretty well. I'd be interested in the opinions of women
> readers on this point. I don't think I've seen Perry mentioned much on
> this
> list but it seems to me that his work qualifies.
>
> Perry's a terrific thriller writer. does suspense and action setpieces
> very well. Sleeping Dogs is the sequel to The Butcher's Boy. I presume
> you've read most of the Jane Whitefield series
>
>
> John Lau
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>
>
> Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your
> character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what
> others think you are.
> John Wooden
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Burridge <stephen.burridge@gmail.com>
> To: rara-avis-l <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:37 pm
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Where have you gone Rara-Avis
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> Just this evening I got a nice new "40th anniversary" trade paperback
> edition of "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", with an introduction by Dennis
> Lehane. I've never read Higgins and I'm looking forward to it.
>
> I've been going through the works of Thomas Perry at a pretty rapid clip
> since the very positive NY Times review of his most recent novel a few
> weeks
> ago. The best I've read so far might be the recent "Fidelity", whose 2
> main
> characters are a PI's widow and a hit man. Perry's first novel "The
> Butcher's Boy", which won an Edgar, also featured alternating segments
> about
> a female novice investigator and a contract killer, oddly enough. A lot of
> his books have female viewpoint characters; Perry seems to me to do the
> female characters pretty well. I'd be interested in the opinions of women
> readers on this point. I don't think I've seen Perry mentioned much on
> this
> list but it seems to me that his work qualifies.
>
> Stephen Burridge
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM, tomarmstrongmusic <
> tom@tomarmstrongmusic.com> wrote:
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> > a buddy of mine finally wore me down and got me to reading Charles
> Bukowski
> > and John Fante, both of whom I had resisted for a long long time and
> neither
> > of whom have much of anything to do with this list. so I have been more
> > immersed in that and haven't been posting.
> >
> > but I did recently read George V. Higgins first two books, "Eddie Coyle"
> > and "Digger's Game" and I liked them both. I almost like "Digger" better
> > than "Coyle" which is probably an unpopular opinion but so what. I loved
> > Digger's ambiguous ending. I found the 'all dialog, all the time' style
> > kind of exhausting but they were good reads. kind of like more gangland
> > versions of Richard Price, in the way violence flows directly from
> > character. what can you do with a guy like the Greek? I plan to read
> > "Cogan's trade" when I find it, and then I think I'll be sorta done with
> > Higgins for a while.
> >
> > and I picked up the first three Factory novels by Derek Raymond,
> ballantine
> > trade pb copies from the 80s. so I'll be tackling those sometime soon.
> >
> > Tom Armstrong
> >
> > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jack Bludis <buildsnburns@...>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone explain the slow and now nearly rapid decline of Rara-Avis.
> It
> > can't just be blamed on the summer, can it?
> > >
> > > Maybe we need a good old, what is noir what is hardboiled conflict to
> > liven things up.
> > >
> > > Jack Bludis
> > >
> > > http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
> > >
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