Juri Nummelin said:
> I've been recently reading Sidney Sheldon - I'm
writing
> an entry
> about him for a reference book -, but found him
largely
> unreadable. Very thin and stereotypic
character
> descriptions,
> very little actual plot, almost all of the books I
read
> were only
> flashbacks on several characters and I lost interest
in
> the
> actual story quite early on. His suprise twists have
been
> no
> surprises to me, at least in the books I've
read.
>
> I'm now reading his first, THE NAKED FACE, which won
the
> Edgar in 1970<
I find that Sheldon's stories move along, easy to read, not
very taxing, not literary at all but with sometimes literary
pretension. That's what I mean by the guilty pleasure comment
I made a few weeks ago.
THE NAKED FACE, I thought, was a pretty good one. It was his
first, I think. If his "handlers" had brought it out big
after his success with THE OTHER SIED OF MIDNIGHT the way
Grisham's people brought out A TIME TO DIE after two best
sellers, it would have enhanced his career greatly. But who
am I to suggest. I've never sold more than 10,000 of any one
book in my life unless I consider the three reprints of an
old Midwood title of mine.
Jack
http://www.jackbludis.com
Shamus nominee for *Shadow of the Dahlia* Try "Blondes,
Blondes, Blondes" at http://www.ThrillingDetective.com
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