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Interview With Martina Cole

edited October 2010 in - Reading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/28/martina-cole-queen-of-crime

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  • Thanks, Stirling. I've never read a Martina Cole. I take it she's quite gritty.
  • her early books are good, her later ones are not.
  • It must have been a later one I read then - I wasn't impressed.
  • I found this with Harold Robbins, loved the first books, hated the later ones, Catherine Cookson, ditto, as if they run out of ideas but are contracted and turn out rubbish.
    I got Martina Cole's Faces (hardback brand new) in a charity shop for 99. It was AWFUL. No story, coarse language, ugly characters with not a single redeeming feature among them. I went on Amazon to say that and found 95 reviews, all saying the same thing ...
  • "She says she writes in her own genre, because she writes crime stories from the point of view of the criminal."

    This confused me. American psycho? The Dexter books? [to name a few . . .]

    I did try reading Martina Cole, but couldn't get into them.
  • Faces was the one I read part of.
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