I don’t have the energy to read much new stuff, so I’m rereading my mystery collections. I have gone through all of my John Lescroarts and have started on my Ruth Rendells. I have 27 of her titles, which should last me a couple of months. She was a brilliant author and a kind, wonderful person. Many years ago, when it was impossible to find books in English back in Ukraine, she sent me a box of her books with a long handwritten letter, and I’ll never forget how much it meant.
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I’m a couple chapters in to Lescroart’s Damage, and it’s too awful. Short, choppy sentences like he can’t hear the flow of his own prose.
Are all his books like that? Is Damage a dud, and should I give him another try with a better title?
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It’s all like that. This is not art. This is pure entertainment, a McDonald’s of literature.
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Ah. Thanks. I have my own junk literature preferences, and alas they don’t run toward police procedurals 😉
Damage is like driving over a relentlessly bumpy road until your teeth hurt…
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