After 50 pages of Blue Belle, I think I may wind up agreeing
with all of this. I am enjoying it for the writing style, as
Al suggests. Vachss is literate (old academic speaking here),
_always_ a Good Thing IMNSHO. The characters are vigorously
presented, and this seems to be a superior version of the
kind of thing I was talking about when I mentioned the
cartoonish nature of a lot of hb. Burke is Batman, isn't he.
I like the modern Batman. (In fact, I enjoy good graphic
novels for reasons which may or may not depend on the quality
of the writing - anybody else here know CEREBUS?) The plot so
far is fairy tale stuff; but perhaps I'm in the mood for it
at the moment. Your warning against the later stuff is duly
noted. :-p
Marianne
On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 03:00 AM, RARA-AVIS Digest
wrote:
> Whether Vachss swings to
> the right or left (and only his intimates and tailor
know that),
> whether his
> characters are no more than cartoons, whether he
writes bad sex
> (there's one
> novel [BLUE BELLE?] where there's no sex at all
because Burke is
> impotent -
> both brave and ironic, I thought, making the hard
man soft), I
> believe that
> Vachss has written some of the cleanest prose
around. Perhaps it has
> to be,
> given his subject matter.
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