IVIV (8): Downstairs Eddie

[Michael Bailey]

 rich wrote:

> the whole shebang w/r/t Doc's parents is too weak for my tea
> sorry to say,

de gustibus...

I'd say, they just come to visit, he's in touch with them.  They like
each other.
There's too little of that in fiction, and far too many unhappy people...
I think Pynchon does affection great, too.
Does it move the plot along? sort of...haven't really thought about that,
I was just so glad to see them!

>the investigator's personal relationships--its
>too soap operay and drives me nutso--get back to the story that's what
>my brain is saying)

big personal variance with that statement too, I've got...
Martha Grimes' Richard Jury has all kinds of digressions
so while I do want to know who the killer is, the other stuff
is so great (I want him to fall for his neighbor lady, for instance)
that she can carry a murderer-catching beyond the end of a book
and I don't feel cheated..
but, it takes all kinds...