The Fretless Bass reviews: Robert B. Parker characters

I love Robert B. Parker, I love all of his books that I've read. I've especially liked the Appaloosa series. I have, though, noticed some similarities between some of his characters, mainly in the Spenser and Appaloosa series. First, Hawk and Virgil Cole seem to have the same personality. They are both the really experienced guy that barley ever speaks his mind and never does anything unnecessary. Spenser and Everett Hitch aren't all too similar, but they do seem to be the only people in their respective worlds with a @#$%^&* conscience. Also, I read the same phrase twice in the two series. In Paper doll (a Spenser book) and Brimstone (an Appaloosa book) the phrase "He'd f@#$ a snake if you'd hold it for him" comes up. I like Robert B. Parker's books, and I like his writing, but you'd think that re-using a phrase as memorable as that would be something writers wouldn't do. Also, all the "whores" in both series always have the same personalities, they all don't mind being a "whore", but they'd rather be something else, and they seem to know everything about everything illegal happening within five hundred miles. Also, the plots of Brimstone and Appaloosa are almost the same. Virgil and Everett ride into a town, become the law, keep a whole bunch of saloon owners and drunks that are so dumb they couldn't tell you the right way to sit on a horse from killing each other, save some woman from some kidnappers in the desert, ride back to the town, and solve the problem with one very loud word, "BANG" and move on to the next town with or without the girl that Virgil can't seem to make his mind up about. Now, don't get me wrong, I liked both those series a lot, but I would have fixed the above errors instead of hopping that my entire fanbase only knew me for one particular series and never read the other.