tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629621328351861035.post7785198129388097711..comments2024-02-18T03:54:35.668-08:00Comments on The Ringer Files: Blue City - Ross MacDonaldKurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13890931403701897892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629621328351861035.post-10807590763259270432017-06-16T06:33:57.930-07:002017-06-16T06:33:57.930-07:00Hi John, I hope you do check out the Lew Archer no...Hi John, I hope you do check out the Lew Archer novels. I really like them. The earlier ones are more "hard-boiled" with less of the grand tragic gothic tones that the later ones took on. One my favorites is The Drowning Pool, and then another one called Black Money. Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13890931403701897892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629621328351861035.post-58887994962020828912017-06-12T18:35:40.835-07:002017-06-12T18:35:40.835-07:00Enjoyed your review, Kurt. I read this book last m...Enjoyed your review, Kurt. I read this book last month and I have to say I agree on pretty much every point you made, though I haven't read any of Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer novels to compare and contrast. Actually, I have read a few critics' reviews of other works that use Ross MacDonald's name pejoratively (as in, "the plot for this [insert title of crappy TV series here] plays out like a Ross MacDonald novel"), so I was surprised at how good <i>Blue City</i> is. I certainly wasn't prepared for it to be so violent or explicit (for its time). Definitely agree that John Weather comes off more like a man in his mid-30s than a young ex-soldier, but I enjoyed the book so much that I was willing to overlook that fact. Having read <i>Blue City</i> makes me want to check out some of MacDonald's Lew Archer novels at a later date.<br /><br />John Nailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18420131885508048131noreply@blogger.com