From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   William Vetter  wrote:   
      
   > > Yeah, well, Block (as he admitted from time to time) kept beans   
   > > on the table till he hit his stride, by writing soft porn thinly   
   > > disguised as case-histories, by "[Various Pseudonyms], M.D."  He   
   > > seems to have gone on thinking, perhaps unto the present day,*   
   > > that if nobody gets bonked or beaten up in a chapter the reader   
   > > will not buy it.   
   > >   
   > Look at it this way:   
   >   
   > If you buy a DVD that says Slant Eye for the Straight Guy on the cover,   
   > you have certain expectations about what you're going to see.   
   > If you buy a book that says Lawrence Block on the cover, you have   
   > certain expectations.   
      
   Only if you have previously encountered Lawrence Block.   
      
      
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