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Incident57th@aol.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:04:43 -0800
(PST)
> From: JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Funny you should bring [T.Jefferson Parker] up.
I
> just finished WHERE
> SERPENTS LIE last week. Thought it was a
corker!
> Parker's been nominated twice for the
Edgar
> (including
> this year for SILENT JOE). I'm looking forward
to
> reading the rest of his books.
The couple TJ Parkers I've read have not impressed at all.
LAGUNA HEAT struck me as a Ross Macdonald pastiche, pure and
simple, and THE BLUE HOUR had a couple of interesting
characters lost in an overlong, tedious plot. (Another
example of a book that could have been profitably cut by a
hundred or so pages.)
I *want* to like Parker -- the plot of THE TRIGGERMAN'S
DANCE, for instance, sounds intriguing.
(Great title, too.) I'll try to pick that one up used and see
if it's any better.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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