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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 27, 2008 18:39:27 GMT
found a bag of books that someone had given me mum and there were about four Pans by Nicholas Blake (the pen name of cecil day lewis). question is are they any good??
i'll get round to reading them eventually and also try and get some cover scans done.
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Post by pulphack on Nov 28, 2008 20:13:39 GMT
they're certainly worth a try. detective fiction that sort of follows the usual templates, but tends to veer off at odd angles. his take on the workings of the human mind, and the frailties of character lift him out of the plot-driven realms of most whodunnits, and leave him hovering - sometimes a little uneasily - in the lands between the genre novel and the novel as it is supposed to be in lit, where the characters and the human condition are the meat.
which means sometimes you just wish it'd come down on one side of the fence or the other and get on with it. but for all that, he walks that tightrope very well, rarely stumbling.
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