--- James Reasoner <
james53@flash.net> wrote:
>
> miker -- #37 is by Pendleton, #40 is by
Steven
> Krauzer, #46 is by Ray
> Obstsfeld. Yeah, #37 is good, but only if
you've
> read the first 36 and
> liked them. It's the next to the last book in
the
> series actually by
> Pendleton. After that it's taken over by
other
> writers. You can tell who
> wrote the books by looking for the "Special
Thanks
> and Acknowledgment" on
> the copyright page. As in any series written by
a
> stable of authors, some
> are pretty good, some are pretty awful.
I never liked Pendleton's stuff. I've read a few of the early
Executioners (the debut, the Caribbean one, the Philly one)
and they all take themselves far too seriously. The notion of
a one-man war against the Mafia is inherently pretty cheesy,
but there's a lot of ponderous "What it all means" passages
in these books.
Actually, it almost plays like camp.
Marvel comic's rip-off character, The Punisher, is IMO a much
better expression of the idea.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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