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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4929056" data-attributes="member: 54707">I liked that,and that,and that:I just finally finished Rough Weather by Bob Parker. I was really hesitant at first because in the first place I didn't know how he could possibly hold a candle to Jesse Stone as far as being a Dick. And secondly my father used to always watch Spencer for Hire which I'm pretty sure was based on the Spencer Novels, because of what I remember about Hawk. I tried watching the show a couple of times but just didn't think Spence in the show was much of a Dick at all. And didn't care for Hawk much either.But after reading Rough Weather I gotta say that he's nearly as sharp as Stone (in the books) and all of the supporting characters are very interesting, even though Spencer's girlfriend is just a sort of amalgamated precursor to Stone's wife and girlfriends in the Stone books. In the books Stone is a good Dick too, and he's written like most of Parker's male characters. Which means he's written good and sharp and he reveals more about what he knows by what he don't say than by what he does. So he actually comes across as knowing what he's doing as a PI. Hawk was very different in the book too. He was amusing and he was good at what he did. I like fellas who are good at what they do.I'm gonna get a bunch more Spencer books cause this one interested me. See if they are as good in the long run and overall as Stone. That'll be hard to top, but this one wasn't bad I thought. Not bad at all.</blockquote>

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