Gerald, the early Spenser is all I've read, because my local
library had them when its books and the supermarket were my
only sources. I suspect I didn't call him a yuppie then
because the term, when it first existed, meant something
different, but my opinion was the same. I think we'll have to
agree to differ.
Joy, who's got a 19-year-old Chevy
"Gerald So" <
gso@optonline.net> asserted:
> I agree Spenser has been domesticated over the
years, largely due to his
rich
> girlfriend. He's gone from beer to wine, from a
five-year-old Chevy with
a
> leaky roof to a Bronco, but he wasn't always this
entrenched.
> While never as iconoclastic as Bethany, in the early
books--THE
GODWULF
> MANUSCRIPT through A SAVAGE PLACE--Spenser was the
underpaid, principled
> outsider.
> Now if you've read the early Spenser and always
thought Spenser a
yuppie,
> that's another thing.
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