On 28 March 2001, Mark Sullivan wrote:
: I've been meaning to ask, how are the non-Archer Ross
: Macdonald/Kenneth Millar books? I've read all of the
Archers (well,
: except for the recently unearthed stories), but none of
them.
I liked BLUE CITY, his third book. It's about a young man
returning to his home town and finding it's gone bad, and I'm
a sucker for that kind of plot. It was made into a movie in
1986 with Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy, which I remember as
being pretty bad, as you'd expect. The book's certainly worth
reading as early, pure genre Macdonald, and while no
masterpiece it's entertaining.
First line: "All the time you've been away from a town where
you lived when you were a kid, you think about it and talk
about it as if the air there were sweeter in the nostrils
than other air."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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