George wrote about Vachss's Flood:
"he had all kinds of cool gadgets, an ensemble cast of
weirdos each with his or her own special skill, a complete
loner for a protagonist, . . ."
This is oen of the things that bugged me about this book and
the series, by extension. How can Burke be even half the
loner he envisions himself, while also having his steady
surrogate family of weirdos? It's one or the other.
"I enjoyed FLOOD, but at the same level at which I plan to
enjoy the Destroyer novels again . . ."
I was going to say the Destroyer novels are a hell of a lot
shorter, but you cover that:
"I'm sure I'll read more Vachss, but if they continue to be
as long and drawn out as FLOOD, I'm going to wish he'd let me
edit them."
Someone should. I find the bloat of the Burke books
particularly surprising given how terse his style is in all
of his other writings I've read, short stories, comics and
the great standalone novel Shella.
Makr
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