>I have a bone to pick with all the so called readers here. How come with all the authors' names bandied about, nobody told me about Andrew Vachss (pronounced Vax)? I just started "Mask Market", and it's terrific! This guy can write!
You should have asked me. I've followed Burke and Max the Silent and Pansy and Mama from the beginning. Start at the beginning. Mask Market is very late in the game. Start back with Flood, Strega, Blue Belle, Hard Candy and Blossom.
"Burke would eat Spade and Marlowe for breakfast, not even spitting out the bones. [He] is one tough, mean, pray-God-you-don't-meet-him hombre."
—Boston Herald
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" - Burke.
( Two Trains Running not in Burke series but terrific. )
And make sure you don't miss my recommendation for Denise Mina.
And then there is Ken Bruen. ( and I think we've already shared appreciation of Bill James)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
