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Robert B Parker No More Spenser

#1 Slapsie Maxie

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Posted 19 January 2010 - 05:02 PM

Died "sitting at his desk"

The arrival of a new Spenser m/s was always something I looked forward to when I worked at Penguin and I still make sure to pick up the latest when I am passing through an airport.

Shame to think there wont be any more

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#2 Wilfrid

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Posted 19 January 2010 - 05:06 PM

Sorry to hear the news.

Incidentally, it makes me think novelists are underachievers. Derrida seems to have published a book a month since his passing, and apparently there are many more to come. Scribble, scribble, scribble.

Eating the Apple 2011 here. Coming soon to Amazon and as an e-book.

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#3 g.johnson

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Posted 19 January 2010 - 05:10 PM

Much as I enjoy it, I think he wrote the same book over and over again.

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Posted 19 January 2010 - 05:12 PM

Pretty much true, but at least the stuff Spenser cooked changed.

"This place was the 4'33" of flavour." -- Adrian, September 18, 2011

yes sir... i get sad when i don't cook
-- Daniel, December 13, 2011

notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table

#5 Slapsie Maxie

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Posted 19 January 2010 - 05:15 PM

QUOTE(g.johnson @ Jan 17 2010, 03:10 PM)

Much as I enjoy it, I think he wrote the same book over and over again.

I agree, but there was a comforting familiarity about the plots and dialogue that made reading them like slipping on a favourite pair of shoes. With interruptions for meals and a to watch a movie, a Spenser novel usually lasted for the duration of a trans-Atlantic flight and the book was always left in the seat pocket as I got off the plane. They served a purpose and served it very well. It's not a bad legacy.

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