----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Taboada" <
matrxtech@yahoo.com>
<For a first assignment, I chose Assignment-Burma
<Girl.
<Cover: A babe with something exotic draped around her
lower
<half and showing her bare back (significantly
dimpled)
You're absolutely right. From now on I will use the euphemism
"significant dimple" in polite company, if that's okay with
you.
<Review to follow if I finish it and it's good, or at
least
<half-good. Aarons writes straight sentences with
good
<action verbs.
Action verbs always make me think of Wade Miller. Nobody
tries harder. A few examples from just a couple of pages of
"Guilty Bystander":
"A curved line of dim light was born. It fattened as the
heavy door opened",
"The single bulb flashed on, blasting the darkness",
"Suddenly her arched brows jumped together",
"Judith was standing on tiptoe to fret with the bonds",
"Judith Wilmington moved around to attack the cord binding
his right wrist"
"the banging again racketed the length of the boat"
"the wind enveloped his half-naked body"
My experience of Aarons is mixed. In the Assignment series, I
thought
"Treason" was outstanding. Place and atmosphere came across
brilliantly.
"Ankara" started well but faded quickly. Non-series, "The Art
Studio Murders" has to be one of the dullest books I read
last year.
Incidentally, Edward Aarons and Donald Hamilton seem to be
the easiest GM authors to find in my part of the world.
Al
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