Marianne Macdonald wrote: I've read most, maybe all, of
Muller's novels, and I'd say that Edwin of the Iron Shoes is
much the weakest of the lot. You learn things as you go along
- my first was certainly my weakest, too. I found The Tree of
Death only so-so, but try one of the other earlyish ones,
perhaps?
**************** Thanks to you and Ed and Todd for your
comments and recommendations on Muller. I'll give her another
go one of these days. Thanks to the people on rara-avis, I've
got a bunch of good stuff to read sitting on the shelf. For
quite a while now I've been trying to read authors new to me.
I haven't been entirely faithful to that policy. I've come
back to Hammett, Chandler, Charles Williams, and Willeford
several times. My goal was to read a hundred new authors.
Done passed that goal up a few novels ago. I thought I would
have a pretty good foundation in the hardboiled and noir
genre by then, but geez... I still haven't read Highsmith,
Gil Brewer, Leigh Brackett, Jason Starr, and a bunch others.
Time to start on another hundred.
Life is rough.
miker
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