At 07:10 AM 11/17/2002 -0800, Doug wrote:
>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.
I bought the first 140 books in an eBay lot. I read the first
54 in about three weeks, then couldn't take anymore. But I
did like #s 1-3, 7-9, and 12.
Overall, though, the Pendleton-written books are far superior
to the ghost-written books. And these books did provide an
important legal case in defining work-for-hire.
Ray
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