I �third� your view: Lehane is very overated...good,
sometimes very solid but not more than average and positively
not an innovator...
Thanks to some answers to �Who changed noir writing ?� in the
past month, I picked up Vixen of Ken Bruen and that is a true
discovery and a great new voice added to my own pantheon of
innovators...I�ll read more about him on the net but I�m just
curious if some here see him in the continuation somehow of
Derek Raymond...along with Martyn Waites...I have no
preconception about it, just asking...but his book shook me
just like, many years ago, some of Derek�s books...
Merci for any info...
Steve...le Montois de D�troit
On 3/13/07 4:22 PM, "E. Borgers" <
webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote: I second your opinion on
this book.
> Too long, too many unnnecessary details on
"secondary-secondary" characters,
> and a very average story.
> Professional:yes. Outstanding: no.
>
> But Lehane did worse: "Shutter Island", this one
with even more acclaim. A
> false good story, and episodes that you could find
everywhere since a long
> time.
> Entertainement thriller, maybe. Good lit:
?
>
> I think Lehane is an overvalued writer, having a lot
of readers with limited
> knowledge of genre lit. Even of lit.
> Why is it so ? I wonder...
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