Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Lawrence Block Message-ID: <70@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 11:04:08 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.70 Posted: Wed Nov 28 11:04:08 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:18:35 EST References: <1878@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 23 I've only read two of the Bernie Rhodenbarr "burglar" series, and I'd like to second the motion -- these really are very good, and are "mystery" novels in the old standard sense, i.e. providing great characters and an interesting plot with a healthy dose of the non-real world. Bernie has a rather interesting moral code, and a pleasantly eccentric background, but he avoids the "slick super-burglar" image surrounding other fictional burglars (no Alexander Monday here, folks (Thank Nifflim)). One wonders where Block got the background info on burglars; it certainly feels authentic, though I haven't the slightest idea what a real burglar uses (The Napoleon of Crime DIRECTS, you know... :-) ). "There *are* standards. If you can't see one, you *make* one and stick to it come Hell or high water -- until you see a BETTER one." -John Gaunt Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA