Matthew Scudder novels, by Lawrence Block

[rachelmanija]

tool-of-satan sent me a few Matthew Scudder novels as part of a giant package, thanks Dan, and after gobbling them down in a sitting, I ran to the library, checked out more, and read those. Then, as if I had eaten too much junk food, I felt vaguely nauseated

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[rachelmanija]

I suspect I won't either, so spill!

[rachelmanija]

...THE HELL???

[rivkat]

"This logical fallacy is technically known as Actually, The White Male Author Is Saying It."

Beautifully put, and applicable in a lot more places than most people will admit.

[tool_of_satan]

The Burglar books are somewhat better - there is a major female character after the first two - but still pretty light on POC characters (I am trying hard and can only think of two of any significance). As I recall they mostly avoid actually stepping in things aside from the last one, as noted.

[spectralbovine]

“What’s great about Indian food delivery is that you never have to go to the restaurants. Every single Indian restaurant I’ve ever gone to has at least one waiter whose last bath was in the Ganges.”
...The fuck? I...have never been to one of those Indian restaurants, apparently. Maybe all the Indian restaurants she went to were in India.

[tool_of_satan]

Ballou is a good character but I feel compelled to note that he and all his close associates are stone racists... there's a scene in one of the books where an African-American guy walks into Grogan's which makes this pretty clear (intentionally so on Block's part in this particular case).

[f4f3]

He is also a career criminal and multiple murderer. Which bothers me some...

[tool_of_satan]

This is true.