I would like to add my voice to thank you, Jim Sallis, for
joining us this month. I really enjoyed reading your answers
to the various questions.
Back in December, I read the only Sallis book I could get
easily, Bluebottle. I felt as if I had jumped into the middle
of a larger story and although it was a great read, I felt I
was probably missing something. After reading the comments of
other list members and the notes on your Website, I realize
why.
I was immediately struck by the literariness of the book.
There's been some discussion here about crime fiction versus
literature. I think any line drawn between the two is bound
to be arbitrary, although some novels of any genre are more
literary than others. I won't try to define what I mean, but
in the case of Bluebottle, I allusions to other books and
music deepen the characters and general story.
In short, I very much enjoyed the book and have set myself
the challenge to read your Lew Griffin series in order, if
possible, thanks to interlibrary loans. If necessary, I will
even buy a couple!
Karin
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 29 Feb 2004 EST