--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Curt Purcell"
<curtpurcell@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Eric Chambers
<nqexile@> wrote:
> >
> > but for me there are just too many 87th
Precinct books. Like
> Gardner's Perry Masons, they are all likely very
good, but I'm not in
> a hurry to find out. They will wait till I'm away
from home with
> nothing else to read and I find them in a Library or
bookshop. And
> then I know I will enjoy them. Life is too short and
there are too
> many other flavors out there to try.
The A.A. Fair series is more interesting, in my opinion. And
Gardner wrote great stuff for the pulps. He was real
imaginative in those, and often outrageous (Ed Jenkins, for
example).
>
> Those 87th precinct novels are like popcorn or
potato chips for
> me--hard to stop with just one! Though I've not read
any single one
> that I'd consider great, it's a fun series to get
into for however
> many installments at a time as you feel
like.
Good stuff but I am afraid to reread it... I don't have a
clear idea of Hunter/McBain's career. I've read a good number
of novels and, except for the excellent The Blackboard
Jungle, the aftertaste is industrial. Maybe I haven't read
the right ones (usual caveat)...
Best,
mrt
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