Are/were they? My mistake. It's been some years, and googling it seemed a bother. My laziness.
For those unfamiliar with The Laughing Policeman, though, it's credited with being the first to combine a) police procedural and b) character development. While it reads quaint now, its influence is obvious if one compares TV episodes of Dragnet to episodes of Hill Street Blues or any of its later clones.
My apologies again Olso. How provincial of me. Shame, shame on me!
Very very popular. I only had the chance to read a chapter or two of one....this, while I worked at a (internationally famous) bookstore...but Brooks's work seemed very enticing.
Fair enough! I only mention The Laughing Policeman as I happen to know it has been widely influential for decades, and Norwegian. Nowadays, though, few have actually read it.
Exactly. As Peter Beagle wrote, "In the end, it is Middle-Earth we love, and not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us." Meaning (I think) the scope of Tolkien's imagination transcended the printed page. Very very rare indeed.
Since I was about 12, it's been John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley. For a while, in my teen years, Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land vied for first place, and later, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. But eventually, piercing reality trumps fantasty.
How about in Chattanooga? It's the 4th largest city in the state and is easily accessible via interstate from the largest (Nashville) and the third largest (Knoxville). It's also a great place to visit with many venues. We could ask around the GA forums too; folk north of Atlanta might be interested. (CS's state-by-state forums really make no sense, geographically.)
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In sert.