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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
- Message-ID: <1737@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:49:35 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.001118.10561@eff.org>
- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
- :
- : For readers who like to follow the growth of a character over the course
- : of several crime/mystery novels, I recommend Robert Parker's first 12
- : Spenser books, beginning with THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT and ending in
- : VALEDICTION. (The books after VALEDICTION, which marks a natural
- : conclusion to the series, show a significant drop in quality.)
- :
- :
- :
- : --Mike
-
- Is that right before the truly ridiculous one in which Hawk and
- Spenser go out and kill everybody in the Pacific Northwest? I
- stopped reading the series after that one (A Catskill Eagle?),
- but in truth, I think Parker started going downhill around the
- time of Looking for Rachel Wallace. After that, he spent an
- awful lot of time with overwraught demonstrations of Spenser's
- tough-but-sensitive nature, and I began to wonder if he had turned
- the entire project over to a fifteen-year-old boy. I do agree
- on the early ones, though- the first one (The Godwulf Manuscript?
- Why can't I remember the titles of mystery novels?) and the
- aforementioned Looking for Rachel Wallace are especially good.
-
- Bill
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