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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2018 23:35:56 GMT
I was thinking today that one of the things I liked about his books is how he would always use the weather as a setting to the story, to the point where it almost became a character.
I also liked the economy of language and simpler plots of his earlier works. One thing that surprised me is how Cotton Hawes arrives at the precinct, is featured in a handful of books and then hardly ever comes to the fore again (I'm 6-10 books from the end). I haven't been enjoying the later books, so I'll probably bow out shy of completing the series.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 3, 2018 12:23:47 GMT
I like McBain a lot—one of the few police-procedural series that I actually enjoyed, just because of how well-done the realism, the setting, and the characterizations were—but I think my favorite McBain so far was actually a novella, “Sadie When She Died.” I think he expanded it into a novel later, which I haven’t yet read, but the novella is just the right length, and the ending hits you like a punch in the gut. In fact, it kinda reminds me of a Ross Macdonald novel in that way. Excellent piece of work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 1:36:52 GMT
I like McBain a lot—one of the few police-procedural series that I actually enjoyed, just because of how well-done the realism, the setting, and the characterizations were—but I think my favorite McBain so far was actually a novella, “Sadie When She Died.” I think he expanded it into a novel later, which I haven’t yet read, but the novella is just the right length, and the ending hits you like a punch in the gut. In fact, it kinda reminds me of a Ross Macdonald novel in that way. Excellent piece of work. My favorite from the series was Lady Killer - crackerjack plot with a lot of tension.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 1:37:24 GMT
But I like the Deaf Man entries too. Partly because I always wanted him to get away with it.
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