Friday, March 3, 2006
robert parker
I have to mention how much I enjoy reading books by Robert Parker, he of the 32 (!) Spenser novels and a cool 20 others, the newest of which is Sea Change. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to learn that he went to Colby College and has a Ph.D. in English from Boston U. He writes such popular books that academicians and highbrow critics might ignore him or be disdainful but he is literate and creates real humdingers of characters. Within two seconds of meeting people in his books and despite few descriptive cues, you know what they look like, how they sound and almost certainly what they like to read and eat. Anyway, his stories are gifts and I am again thrilled to read a book of his for the first time.
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