Robert B. Parker has a Blog
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pecuniumI like his work. I have some minor annoyances with the way the subplots in the individual books mirror the arc of continuing story, but hey, that's something which is a painful aspect of dramatic fiction in the modern age (The Closer is awful for this; then again, I dislike aspects of it on a professional level. Her interrogation strategy bothers me. Cops' interrogation strategies bother me, and hers are cop strategies on steroids, but I digress).
His books are hard-boiled detective stories, in the mold of wisecracking; but intelligent (one can also say sensitive). Spenser ("like the poet") cooks, reads, is a baseball fan (and basketball, but he has his priorities, in the season, Baseball takes precedence), enjoys poetry and is tolerant (which doesn't mean he isn't jugemental; there's a difference).
His blog is much the same. Erratic, but readable (add a dose of working writer stuff. Not so process oriented asmatociquala, but some interesting insight to the life).
Robert B. Parker
His books are hard-boiled detective stories, in the mold of wisecracking; but intelligent (one can also say sensitive). Spenser ("like the poet") cooks, reads, is a baseball fan (and basketball, but he has his priorities, in the season, Baseball takes precedence), enjoys poetry and is tolerant (which doesn't mean he isn't jugemental; there's a difference).
His blog is much the same. Erratic, but readable (add a dose of working writer stuff. Not so process oriented as
matociquala, but some interesting insight to the life).Robert B. Parker
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Parker has said Hawk will always be the mystery man
Date: 2009-05-10 06:39 pm (UTC)In his gun fight at the OK Corral book about the Earps (where the history is acceptable if not great but a Winchester 97 appears) and in the current western fantasy series - in which Virgil Cole is arguably a - perhaps younger certainly less sophisticated - variation on Hawk? - Parker insists on having single action Colts with swingout cylinders, matching Winchester rifles and Colt pistols in .45 Colt rather than the correct 44-40 or 44 Winchester in the Winchester and .44 Frontier in the Colt. The Gray man shot Spenser with literally an elephant gun, no doubt a display of power for the proverbial white hunter but nothing such a person would have chosen. More recently the Gray Man relied on a .22 rimfire for a single killing shot through window glass in a way that might or might not have worked in reality - likely not - but that no vaguely competent shooter let alone a real expert would ever have tried. Even James Bond, licensed to kill, had a no license to kill companion shoot the glass before Bond made the killing shot. The trilogy culminating in Hundred Dollar Baby verges on great literature for a certain time and place.