jim said:
> You may have been wrong about the song quote, but
you were bang on
about
> Vachss. Whenever I see a post complaining about John
D. McDonald's
> "preachyness," I have an urge to point the offended
party toward AV. With
> JDM I never had the feeling that his politics got in
the way of his
> characters or his stories, but I can't say the same
for Andrew. His work
has
> been devoured by his messages.
>
when i read my first jd macdonald, _the deep blue goodbye_, i
was amazed at the silly dimestore philosophy that came from
travis. travis seemed smarter and more world-wise than these
little monologues made him out to be. but these were just
little asides. like you stated, the story surged
onward.
when i read my next jdm, _dress her in indigo_, i smiled when
i seen more of the same. they didn't bother me at all.
these are the only two jdm's i've read. instead of rolling
thru the whole collection, i decided that i wanted to spread
myself out and cover a wide range of hardboiled authors and
then come back later and fill in the gaps. i've read a few
authors now, but i think that jdm might be the best
storyteller so far.
miker
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