Thanks for the info, Charles. I'm looking forward to reading
The Colorado Kid. As I said before, I'm not sure why a
science fiction writer would be reviewing a book totally out
of his genre -- or how such a gifted writer could write such
a crappy "spoiler" review.
Darrell
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I wouldn't call it a "cozy," but I know what Card
was talking
about. The book takes place in a small town off
the coast of Maine
and is written in a voice suitable to that
location. It's
definitely not a hardboiled voice -- but it is a
non-hardboiled
voice telling a noir story.
One warning: Card's review contains some pretty
egregious spoilers,
so if you want to read the book, you might want
to skip reading the
review. Part of the pleasure of the book is a
series of things you
learn as the tale unfolds, and Card just rattles
several of those
things off dismissively in a single sentence. It
reminds me of the
single worst example of back-cover copy I ever
read, on the Vintage
paperback edition of Nabokov's INVITATION TO A
BEHEADING, which
perversely gives away every single surprise in
the story. When I
gave a copy of that book to a friend, I
whited-out every noun on
the back cover first, to prevent the book from
being ruined...
--Charles
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Charles Ardai
Editor, Hard Case Crime
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