Then, too, after The Galton Case, all of
>Macdonald's books are essentially the same Freudian
tangle; the
>virtuosity is persuasive and one cannot stop reading
-- but at the end,
>this reader feels cheated. It was the same story all
over again, once
>again.
On the contrary. As a lurker, I have to step out and say that
I, for one,
did not feel cheated. What I loved about Macdonald was the
depth of his
stories. I am going to have to read his bio because after
reading his
books, I was convinced he came from an exceptionally
dysfunctional family.
Why else does his root of crime go so far back?
Perhaps the attitude that crime has no history, that we have
made ourselves
comes out of the shortness of American memory. While we
celebrate the 200th
anniversary of this country, others are talking about
thousands of years of
civilization. While Los Angeles tears itself down and
reconstructs new
streets, neighborhoods and communities, Europe, Asia and the
rest of the
world is bound to its past.
Geraldine
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