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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
Even I, who had been a Bruen fan for a while when
> they first came out, was disappointed when I
finished The White
Arrest.
> It wasn't until I read all three and got to know the
characters, the
> rhythms and threads of their ongoing lives, that I
really started
seeing
> how good they were.
> Mark
Interesting to hear, Mark, because the only Bruen novel I've
read is THE WHITE ARREST and I hated it. The thought of
reading two more novels featuring "rhythms and threads" of
the ongoing lives of characters I found extremely tiresome
and without a shred of believability to them was laughable.
Five or six years have passed and I've read reams of praise
for Bruen since, especially on this list, and maybe I should
give him another go. But it won't be the rest of this
trilogy. I don't care to plough through two more novels just
to get started on seeing how good the characters are. There
are too many other, more promising, books to read and never
enough time to read them.
For example, I picked up WINTER'S BONE by Daniel Woodrell
(Little, Brown 2006) after reading a review by Tom Nolan in
the Wall Street Journal. It looks to be a fine piece of
southern noir.
Richard Moore
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