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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.

YankeesJTJ wrote: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.

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).