Happy days are here again! Hachette has brought back the `Sudden` series by Oliver Strange, huzzah, huzzah. Somewhat expensive at Rs 320 per book but now fans can once more go off to towns called Lawless, where enigmatic cowpunchers pull the fastest draw in the wild west on ornery critters, where pretty women are forever looking out for knight errants, and where literary stereotypes rule the roost!
An afternote: The new Sudden imprints by Hachette India are dreadfully marred by errors galore..or should that be errata galore, I wonder. The same name is spelt in three different ways, typos run all over the place, grammar and syntax take a long leave of absence. Really, unforgivable disservice to the Fastest Draw in the West.
And every book in this re-issued series now carries an apology disguised as a Publisher's Note, stating that the `real message` was anti-racism. Given that the books are equal and impartial offenders to Mexicans, Reservation Indians, Blacks and a host of others, all I can say is: go pull the other one, pardner.
And every book in this re-issued series now carries an apology disguised as a Publisher's Note, stating that the `real message` was anti-racism. Given that the books are equal and impartial offenders to Mexicans, Reservation Indians, Blacks and a host of others, all I can say is: go pull the other one, pardner.