Lawrence Block

[YankeesJTJ]

Has anyone read the Mathew Scudder Series by Lawrence Block? I recently picked up his first one (written in 1976) called Sins of hte fathers. I really enjoyed it, but was a huge departure from "The Burglar" Series with Bernie Rhodenbarr which I have always loved.

[BookReviewer]

Has anyone read the Mathew Scudder Series by Lawrence Block? I recently picked up his first one (written in 1976) called Sins of hte fathers. I really enjoyed it, but was a huge departure from "The Burglar" Series with Bernie Rhodenbarr which I have always loved.

I just got my "Burglars Can't Be Choosers" in the mail today. I'm a little more than half way finish with it already! So far i love his writing style and the way he sets up his humor in a timely fashion as well. Definitely will check out his other stuff.

I, too, would like to know how his other series are besides Bernie Rhodenbarr's series.

[Mike_Lang]

Lawrence Block is one of my favorite authors, he has several series: The Matthew Scudder series (my personal favorite), The Burglar Series featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr the book dealer who moonlights as a cat burglar (or maybe it's the other way around), The Keller series (Keller is a hitman), The Chip Harrison series, and The Tanner series (because of a war injury Tanner, a thief, has lost the ability to sleep.

All of them are completely different from each other. The Burglar series is by far the funniest. Scudder is more of a hardboiled type series - it gets quite violent in the middle books. I don't really recall the other series well other than that I didn't like the Chip Harrison books at all (rather I didn't like the one and 1/2 books of the series I read - the others in the series could be exceptional, I'll never know).