NP but tangential

[Thomas Beshear]

Yes, he did revitalize the genre. Those first 8-10 Spenser novels are 
classics -- later, they were still fun, but they began to feel more like 
episodes of a TV show than novels with deep issues at stake. As a stylist, 
he could say so much so quickly. A friend remarked that Parker wrote as if 
he were being charged by the word.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:31 PM
Subject: NP but tangential


> With all this talk of detectives and genre fiction, not one comment so
> far on the passing of Robert B Parker.
>
> Not a fan of the books, but he did revitalize the genre. Also a very
> nice man on the occasions that we crossed paths.