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JAMESBJOHNSON
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I posted comments about HOP SCOTCH by Brian Garfield. While I never reveal the endings of books I'm unhappy with how HOP SCOTCH ended. That is, the suspense built thru the whole book and the ending fizzled.
It was worse even than the hero saving his ass by flying away from trouble when he suddenly remembered how he had learned to fly at summer camp when he was 12. The rest of the book was plausible and clever, you never think NO WAY! As Mark Twain complained of Cooper, WHEN ABSOLUTE SILENCE IS WORTH TEN DOLLARS A SECOND HIS MAN IS MAKING ENOUGH NOISE TO STARTLE EVERY INDIAN IN THE COUNTY....and all seem deaf.
I contemplate these things before I write.
It was worse even than the hero saving his ass by flying away from trouble when he suddenly remembered how he had learned to fly at summer camp when he was 12. The rest of the book was plausible and clever, you never think NO WAY! As Mark Twain complained of Cooper, WHEN ABSOLUTE SILENCE IS WORTH TEN DOLLARS A SECOND HIS MAN IS MAKING ENOUGH NOISE TO STARTLE EVERY INDIAN IN THE COUNTY....and all seem deaf.
I contemplate these things before I write.