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 Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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With all the talk going on about Donald E. Westlake I couldn't resist picking up my copy of The Ax. I'm well into it and it is so good I don't dare to say anything more about it at present...except, man, this book compete for the top book prize ever. I'll definitly write a review when I'm done. This book demands that you get strong opinions on it - it's an important work.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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It really is supurb, Fenny. One of the finest suspense novels I've ever read. Right up there with The Ideal Genuine Man, by Don Robertson.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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You see, this is what I mean. Every time I tell myself now's the time to read Night In The Lonesome October or Through Shattered Glass, you folks rave about a book I've had on the To Be Read shelf for almost a year and convince me that now's the time for The Ax. I'll never get caught up!
Brad Vautrinot
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 3:02 am Post subject: |
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I'm still chugging through the Westlake tales in A GOOD STORY and TOMORROW'S CRIMES, but THE AX will be my first Westlake novel as soon as I'm done. Can't wait to read it. I also think that THE HOOK looks really interesting. So does SMOKE. But THE AX must come first.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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How was "THe Ideal Genuine Man" by Don Robertson? I've always wanted to read it, but never had the chance.
I sort of knew Don Robertson. He was a reporter and then a columnist for THE CLEVELAND PRESS. He had a very sarcastic sense of humor in his columns. Anyway, he had a talk radio show in Cleveland in the early 80s. I called it a lot to talk about movies.
Well, he was fired from his radio show and the Cleveand Press shut down. He moved to Texas and utterly hated it. He put that into "Ideal Genuine Man." Apparently, Stephen King really liked IGM and gave it some quotes for a sendoff.
I think Robertson died a few years ago. I don't know if he ever wrote anything after IGM.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Mike,
King did more than give a few quotes to Robertson. He actually published it as one of the few books done by his own Philtrum Press. That edition is worth big bucks now.
As for the contents of the book, they are superlative. I had an old used paperback of it and it used to be the first book that I would lend to people. It and Lansdale's The Drive In. I'm not kidding when I call the Ideal Genuine Man and The Ax two of the very finest suspense novels that I've ever read.
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