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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Mystery Recommendation: Robert B. Parker's Spenser
Message-ID: <394@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 16:12:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 16:12:58 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 02:41:08 EST
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <479@grendel.UUCP> avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>Yes...  I like Spenser, too. (In moderation.) Interestingly enough
>(what a dumb phrase.... well, anyway you be the judge) I read my first
>Spenser novel after reading a piece about the author and character in
>the *Wash.  Post* food section. (Spenser can cook, you see...  But
>don't try all of the recipes.  Parker admitted that he never actually
>tried many of them.  He made them up to sound interesting.)
>
>Anyway, Spenser is kind of like the best characters Bogart played in
>movies (all of them, you say?).  The books are very light reading.
>But fun.

	By the way, last night I went to a preview showing of a TV
pilot for a series based on these books. If it got good reviews
from the audience it might even show up on TV! I thought the
dialog was a little corny, but otherwise it was a decent, if
merely ordinary, detective show.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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