The Barbarous Coast–Special Post

by | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog Posts

         A Special Post on the Macdonald—Chandler Relationship   One of my favorite followers, Neoklis Galanopoulis, recently posted on how in The Barbarous Coast Macdonald created an unattractive character, Clarence Bassett, and gave him many of the...

THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Ten

by | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog Posts

                                                      Spoiler Alert                                         The Good and the Bad                                                             First, the good:   Macdonald achieves a rapid pace that...

THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Nine

by | Oct 2, 2022 | Blog Posts

                                                                                           Spoiler Alert             If That’s What You Think, You Ought to See a Shrink   When Archer gets to work, nothing stops him.  After leaving Rina behind at the LA airport he...

THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Eight

by | Sep 27, 2022 | Blog Posts

                                                                                                    Spoiler Alert                                           The Perfect Patsy   Rina wakes up, still groggy from her sleeping pill, and she and Archer start to...

THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Seven

by | Sep 23, 2022 | Blog Posts

                                                                          Spoiler Alert                                    The Pace Quickens, Sort of   Archer spent Chapter 21 through 23, a matter of 18 pages in my edition, in conversation with Tobias. But...