>
>
> You guys don't have to like Spenser, and I never
said you had to, but
> you can't criticize him on one hand for all the very
un-Marlowe-like
> things he does, and then on the other write him off
as an empty copy.
> At the very least, whether he succeeded or failed,
Parker should be
> credited with trying to move beyond Chandler and
stake out his own
> turf.
I guess my feeling is that it is the Marlowe-like stuff, the
lone knight with a code of honour, that turned Spenser into a
stick-figure. Sure he's updated, but eventually he stopped
evolving with his changing environment, choosing instead to
share musings about his fixed morality.
Kerry.
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