Hello, Bob;

27 Jun 04 14:58, Bob Lawrence wrote to Robert Bull:

 BL>  Elmore Leonard writes the *best* dialog and creates really strange

I think I read a couple of his - one where a bomber girl has to get 
literally scraped out of the woodwork, and another that was mixed up with a 
Salem ghost story, which I didn't much like.

 BL> characters. Thereis anew generation of crime-thriller writers tryign
 BL> to copy him. James Ellroy (I suppose) is hard to read (at first) but
 BL> well worth the struggle. It's almost SF, the way he creates an
 BL> alternative Los Angeles... dark, violent, and cynical.

You might like Michael Marshall's THE STRAW MEN, which is also very close 
to SF.

 BL>  I think that what I like best about SF is the alternative universe
 BL> some authors can create. You get it in some thrillers, and historical
 BL> fiction too. I like to lose myself in another world, but only with
 BL> real characters...

Yes good point.  Rosemary Sutcliff was great at making Roman Britain real.  
My mother likes Philippa Gregory's historical novels.

 BL>  More names for my crowded piece of paper. My local library really
 BL> sucks. They have very few of your names on the shelves...

I'm lucky, our local library has a good stock, and the inter-library loan 
service works well too.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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