From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Di Monbak wrote:   
   > In article <403D61CD.8050606@texas.net>, firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
   says...   
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   >>(Or maybe it's just that now he can afford to live there.)   
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   > Or he's impressed with Michael McGarrity?!   
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   > There is one of McCarthy's older books that   
   > I've yet to get my hands on - Orchard Keeper.   
   > Otherwise, I thought his early books were far   
   > more interesting/inventive than his later   
   > Border Trilogy series, although I enjoyed the   
   > latter - just not as much.   
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   I do recognize, though, that his earlier work wasn't appealing enough to   
   generate big sales. He had the edge and honed it well, but I found them   
   somewhat flat. Which isn't as bad as it sounds. They were good good   
   engravings, where I found the Trilogy to be richer canvases. He's one of   
   those writers whose early work is readily available, by virtue of later   
   commercial success, so that we can easily watch him developing. And it   
   will be interesting to see what comes next. He has the talent and   
   grounding in literary efforts make it not unlikely that he can become   
   great. Doesn't always happen, though, but he's got no excuse for fading.   
   Wouldn't be the first author to push the next novel through on account   
   of wads of money being fronted. Or he could easily say, "I've done that.   
   Now for something completely different.", and begin developing a new   
   learning curve in another style.   
      
   I can't help but think, that if he isn't finished with things in the   
   Trilogy style, that he might be attracted to the controversy over Onate   
   and take him on as a subject, which would follow (as I mentioned   
   earlier) Lea's The Hands of Cantu, that treats a Spanish colonial and   
   has something of the feel of McCarthy's early stuff.   
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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