James Rogers wrote:
> Surely I am not the only one who hungers to get away
from the
> interminable chain of dispute respecting _Moby Dick_
and _Huckleberry
> Finn_. Worthy books, but yeesh.
OK, OK! As for me, the dispute is over. And Kevin, sorry
about my earlier e-mail!
Getting back to the real thing, I've been reading Dennis
Lehane's "Gone, Baby, Gone". Did I get it right when I
understood it's one of his weaker books? It's not bad, but I
don't seem to get very close to Patrick Kenzie and Angie
Gennaro. They suffer and they are weak and occasionally
strong, but still I don't see them as very interesting
characters. Kenzie's narrative voice isn't very personal,
either. The other people in the book are more interesting,
especially the wisecracking police team of Broussard and
Poole. But the plot is interesting (I just hope I didn't
guess the real bad guy already in the beginning... 140 pages
to go) and the action scenes are stunning.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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