James Sallis mixes up the chronology to good effect in his
Lew Griffin novels.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM, cptpipes2000 <
cptpipes@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> John Lau said:
> > in The Black Ice however, you peg Bosch's year
of birth as 1950, making
> him
> > 58 this year. I don't know if LAPD has
mandatory retirement at a certain
> age.
> > you've had Bosch retire from the police force
and continue his personal
> > mission once already
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> > so I guess what my question is, do you now have
an actual end of the
> series
> > in mind? and if so, are you working toward that
end?
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> I am a fan of series books. It is the reader's
favorite dream: a story that
> never ends.
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> That said, there is beauty in a cycle that has a
specific destination and
> reaches it. The Lew
> Griffin series is my favorite example.
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> I wish more series authors would do like Block did
with WHEN THE SACRED
> GINMILL
> CLOSES and tell a story about a series character
that took place earlier.
> Pelecanos (among
> others) has made me a bit of a fetishist for books
set in a specific year.
> Instead of setting
> their stories in the generic present, I wish more
authors would tell go
> back to earlier years
> with their characters.
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> I just remembered: Reed Farrell Coleman has done
this so far with his Moe
> Prager series.
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