Re: Another Newbie Here
- From: "Mark Alan Miller" <mamiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 20:11:44 GMT
"Janet Puistonen" <boxhill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jean wrote:
Hello All,
I have been lurking here for a couple of months and find you all very
interesting and informative. I have gotten some good incites into (new
to me) authors and books.
Have a question, please. I just came across the bibliography of
Elizabeth George and many of the reviews by her admirers. She sounds
good to me and would like to know the opinion of the Rams.
Thanks, Jean
I've read probably 4 or 5 of them. Ultimately, I find her grossly
overblown: stylistically, emotionally, etc. I stopped reading her mostly
because her characters were intensely annoying, whiny, and neurotic, and
becoming more so. Stylistically, I found that in her eagerness to use the
vernacular she just beat it to death. ("Playing for the Ashes" was the one
that finally did it for me.)
Playing for the Ashes was just awful, a distillation of George's worst
traits. But it was followed by some better books. I especially liked
Deception on His Mind. The book that killed me was A Traitor to Memory,
with its endless diary entries by a neurotic violinish, and the incredibly
obnoxious, stupid woman who latches onto him. Not to mention the laughable
ending. Pretentious twaddle, that one.
Mark Alan Miller
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