In a message dated 7/3/06 1:02:17 PM,
james53@flash.net writes:
> One name that hasn't been mentioned so far is Elmore
Leonard. I wouldn't
> go
> so far as to say that I don't like his work, because
some of it I like very
> much, but I don't care for his crime novels over the
past ten years or so.
> His style has gotten a little too terse for me, and
stodgy though I may be,
> I like a more straightforward style of storytelling,
instead of flashbacks
> inside of flashbacks inside of
flashbacks.
>
> But I keep reading most of his books anyway, because
from time to time I
> still run across one that I really like.
>
his plots have gotten even more meandering. I couldn't finish
Mr. Paradise
John Lau
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