Re: RARA-AVIS: Streeter

Bill Hagen (billha@ionet.net)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:14:40 -0500 (CDT) James Stephenson recently remarked,

>Y'know, I read both Streeter novels a couple of months ago and I really
>enjoyed them. *Both* of them. I just checked the new one out of the
>library & I'm sure I'll enjoy that one too. Don't ask me to explain
>myself, because I can't remember exactly what I enjoyed about them,
>though. Geeze, since everybody hated it so much, do I feel like a rube!
>;-)

Hate's a bit strong, James--as is rube. I enjoyed the plotting in the
novel, even while I thought the characterization was flat. And it was a
pleasure to see a genuinely incompetent killer. (I gather that crimes have
more incompetence in them than most novels would admit, though the same
novels display police incompetence regularly.)

I too will read more Streeters. But only when they happen to be on a
library shelf or in a cheap used edition.

Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>

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