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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.221127.707@eff.org>
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- References: <1992Dec29.001118.10561@eff.org> <1737@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:11:27 GMT
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- In article <1737@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson) writes:
- >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.)
- >
- >Is that right before the truly ridiculous one in which Hawk and
- >Spenser go out and kill everybody in the Pacific Northwest?
-
- Yes. If Parker had stopped the series with VALEDICTION, the series itself
- would have been a masterwork in detective fiction. Now it's just a
- franchise.
-
- >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.
-
- I agree with both your recommendations here, although I like all the books
- through VALEDICTION.
-
-
- --Mike
-
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