tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post6355566209210462705..comments2024-03-27T17:14:54.791-05:00Comments on Glorious Trash: The Butcher #8: Fire BombJoe Kenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-45543173424692967322019-10-01T15:32:25.165-05:002019-10-01T15:32:25.165-05:00I read several of them in the 1970s, back when I w...I read several of them in the 1970s, back when I would practically every men's adventure series that came out. They were okay, nothing special, but very repetitive, like you say. The opening chapters are all the same, the villains are always sexual deviants, and it always closes with "the bitter-our taste of defeat" in Bucher's mouth. Although I sort of liked that last line. John M. Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11905466251214076912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-47644701079038400092019-09-19T08:36:54.617-05:002019-09-19T08:36:54.617-05:00There are two Butcher novels -- I forget which two...There are two Butcher novels -- I forget which two -- that literally have the exact same opening chapter. The only thing they changed were the names of the Mafia goons that were after Butcher. Other than that, it was cut-and-paste. I've never seen anything that blatant in series books other than the stuff William W. Johnstone did (a lot of his books are at least 60% paste-ins from Zwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02364540771153476179noreply@blogger.com