--- Rene Ribic <
rribic@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Block, I've only read "The Sins of the Fathers"
-
> so-so but I was
> expecting that from other list members'
comments
I think Scudder is best read in order, particularly the first
half of the series. "Fathers" is a good book, but it's
nothing compared to some of his other work.
> I've read one of these before - it was an
enjoyable
> pulp/comic book
> style romp, funny as well. Is the post
Sapir/Murphy
> series worth
> reading?
The latter books in the series are hit-and-miss. Some of them
are quite good, some not so good. There is no perfect system
for knowing which ones are better than others, but I've found
that I tend to enjoy those that Warren Murphy had a personal
hand in writing. Most of the books and their actual authors
are listed here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7644/authors.html
I think just about all the covers list Warren Murphy or
Murphy & Sapir as the authors--I THINK that they listed
both authors until Sapir died, and then they began listing
only Murphy. But I could be wrong about that. At any rate,
while Murphy occasionally dabbles in the current novels, he
has very little direct input anymore (his choice). That may
change, I suppose, as he is now coming out of his temporary
semi-retirement.
> And you're obviously a man of taste.
Tell that to my wife, will ya?
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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