George Pelenacos

[benedictjjones]

Any one read any of his stuff?

have been meaning to check himout for a while and got his 'shame the devil' for christmas which i enjoyed and found a good read BUT i wouldn't put it up there with my favourites. perhaps i just need to read a couple of others. the characters in this one were fully drawn and multi dimensioned but that 'spark'(for want of a better word...) wasn't in it for me.
reading this one though reminded me i have read some of his shorts (same main character) so i might dig them out and have another read.

thoughts would be appreciated.

[stu]

I've heard really good things about him and I've enjoyed what I read but he hasn't convinced me he should go on my faves list just yet.

[benedictjjones]

^fully agree. have yet to read another one since 'shame the devil', think the hype around him may have killed it for me - not a bad writer by any means but just not as good as i would have thought from what's been said about him.

[stu]

I want to like him 'cos he wrote for The Wire but so far the novels I've read by him fall into the good but not great category.