lindaj07 said:
Hello Peder
Just finished ... Mondrian, still laughing... Don't know what to read next as it's bound to be an anti-climax!
How about you?
Hi Linda!
That was a razzle-dazzle climax wasn't it?! Sort of like a shell game with about 20 shells instead of the usual three! (I assume they have them there also, but maybe not; they are the bane of existence in NYC.) And anyone who could follow that ending would have to be a genius, right?! I'm looking forward to the next one with high hopes; no anti-climaxes for me!
But, BIG NEWS!
The great detective here has solved the mystery of the fleeing Lawrence Block books! They haven't been fleeing in the numbers I originally thought. They have just fled to another shelf!
And I have been looking in the wrong place. Oh, humiliation!
Or it could simply be (although so
very hard to believe
) that I was simply looking in the wrong place all along. Talk about dumb and dumber!
OK, all together now :
har-dee-har-har! Ssheesh!
And it is no excuse that I forgot the alphabet and that the two books I was staring at were by Larry Brooks, and that it took a long time for me to realize that Larry Brooks does
not equal Lawrence Block.
But, anyway, the two Rhodenbarr stories that I originally saw are really gone, so he must have a following.
So, mystery solved, but still no new mystery to read.
But all was not lost because I found a different book to buy: Italo Calvino's
"If on a winter's night a traveler..." which has me chuckling out loud and is a totally different kettle of fish.
Reading continues unabated!
Onward!
Peder
