A Fine Dark Line (Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc)

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Summary: Lansdale gets it right
Review: This is basically The Bottoms revisited. The story is changed a little bit, but the premise is the same, a coming of age story involving a murder mystery in the gone-by south admist the turmoil of ratial inequality. Like the bottoms, it's beatufuly described, and you really care about the characters, even though some of them are simple and ignorant ( I guess that's what makes them real. )

But The Bottoms is much better (in my opinion) and I'm not sure why he even wrote this. Why make an almost carbon copy of a better book?

Still, it's lansdale, and it's good. It's no Drive In Omnibus, but it beats a lot of what's out there. Now if he'd only get back to writing the mojo that made me love his work so much.