Re: RARA-AVIS: First Joe Gores novel

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 29 Jul 2002


Mark,

Any opinion on Gores' title, Cons, Scams
& Grifts? I have a copy of that one on my pile. It looks like a newer title. Gores' spare/stripped down style is certainly an asset in his writing well worth appreciating. And admiring.

Ed Lynskey

--- Mark Sullivan < DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> Jim recommended A Time of Predators to those who liked Dead
> Man for its
> similar premise. However, I much prefer the later book.
> Granted, I
> read Predators a long, long time ago (it was the first Gores I
> read),
> but it is my least favorite of his books. This is not to say
> it isn't
> good or that it did not affect me deeply -- why else would I
> have gone
> on to his other books? -- just that it seemed a bit
> overwrought to me
> and I prefer his more stripped style.
>
> Mark
>
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