Comments on: Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/dennis-lehane-a-drink-before-the-war/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 16 May 2008 21:11:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/dennis-lehane-a-drink-before-the-war/#comment-1037 KF Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:06:37 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=494#comment-1037 <p>Well, I’ve read the first three and the fifth now—the fifth was the first I read, then the first three in order.  I haven’t been able to get ahold of the fourth yet.  And while I’ve enjoyed them all, I’d have to say that the first two are far and away my favorites.  I like the fifth one still, perhaps because it’s where I met the characters, but it does have a little sense of exhaustion around the edges.  (Though, interestingly, not so much as the third, which seemed to me in some ways to be going through the motions.  Which makes me wonder if the exhaustion is really Lehane’s or if it’s mine...?) </p> <p> I think I’m going to read <i>Mystic River</i> on the plane today… </p> Well, I’ve read the first three and the fifth now—the fifth was the first I read, then the first three in order.  I haven’t been able to get ahold of the fourth yet.  And while I’ve enjoyed them all, I’d have to say that the first two are far and away my favorites.  I like the fifth one still, perhaps because it’s where I met the characters, but it does have a little sense of exhaustion around the edges.  (Though, interestingly, not so much as the third, which seemed to me in some ways to be going through the motions.  Which makes me wonder if the exhaustion is really Lehane’s or if it’s mine…?)

I think I’m going to read Mystic River on the plane today…

]]> By: Steve http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/dennis-lehane-a-drink-before-the-war/#comment-1036 Steve Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:45:41 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=494#comment-1036 <p>I’m glad you liked it.  I’ve also encouraged a colleague of mine here at work to take a look at the series, and he’s liked the early ones more than the later ones.  By the fifth novel, I think it becomes clear why he shifted protagonists with _Mystic River_.  He seems ready to follow a new character’s arc, which is also probably why we get more Bubba as we proceed through them. </p> <p> I’ll be curious to see your take on the lot of them </p> I’m glad you liked it.  I’ve also encouraged a colleague of mine here at work to take a look at the series, and he’s liked the early ones more than the later ones.  By the fifth novel, I think it becomes clear why he shifted protagonists with _Mystic River_.  He seems ready to follow a new character’s arc, which is also probably why we get more Bubba as we proceed through them.

I’ll be curious to see your take on the lot of them

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