> > Google for Taltos and Chandler. Unlike the Guards books, they do not, > to my knowledge, use specific scenes, story elements, and themes from > a previous work, but they are very much a pastiche of Chandler > language-wise. > vlad's life so far even with its ups and downs has worked out better than most of chandler's main characters lives... but still a line like 'she had a walk that would make a bishop kick in a stain glass window" (or very close to it), from chandler makes him more than worth the read... andy