> Then I read Eight Million Ways to Die. What a change.
The series went
> from beng slightly above average genre fare to top of
the heap. And
> every one since has been of the same
quality.
>
> I was just wondering if you were also finding a big
contrast between the
> booksbefore and after 8 Million?
>
> Mark
My two cents. The Scudder series took off from the last line
of
...SACRED GINMILL, hit overdrive with OUT ON THE CUTTING EDGE
when
readers are first introduced to the absolutely superior
supporting
character of Mick Ballou, and has not deteriorated since.
Block is right
up there with Thomas H. Cook, Michael Connelly, Mary Willis
Walker, and
a new addition -- Charles Todd -- as the best wordsmiths
in
hardboiled/noir fiction. Ironically, just as I've never read
any of
McBain's Matthew Hope novels, I have never read any of
Block's other
series.
... Reed
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