>i just picked up a used copy of this award winner
(the golden dagger for
>best crime novel) and, after about 100 pages, i find
myself totally
>disinterested. does anyone have opinions on it?
should i persevere or
>just
>put it down? i've checked the archives but didn't
find any previous
>discussion of it.
>
>thanks,
>martha
>
sakana@swbell.net <mailto:
sakana@swbell.net>
>
I found 'A Small Death in Lisbon' a bit laboured at times;
but it's worth persevering with.
However, I don't think it's a patch on his four previous
novels set in West Africa: 'Instruments of Darkness', 'The
Big Killing', 'A Darkening Stain', and 'Blood is Dirt.' Now
they are hardboiled.
-Stephen Holden-
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