really appreciate Gary's communication. just re-read _High Sierra_ which has always been a favorite of mine. seems to me that Burnett writes with hard-boiled humanity. maybe it is just his fluid style of writing, but his books always make me think that maybe, somewhere, there beats a heart in the hard-boiled body. bbbbbob@earthlink.net ---------- > From: Gary Warren Niebuhr <piesbook@execpc.com> > To: rara-avis@icomm.ca > Subject: RARA-AVIS: hardboiled definition and Chandler readings > Date: Saturday, March 01, 1997 6:27 PM > > I think that Ross Macdonald had a great definition of what a hardboiled > story is in The Way Some People Die when Archer says, "She lived in a world > where people did this or that because they were good or evil. In my world > people acted because they had to...the things you had to do in my world > made you good or evil in hers." > > I had a chance to re-read The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye recently. > Chandler does not age with time nor does he lose anything if you are > working through the books for the umpty-ump time. The Big Sleep is an > exciting story with real characters, but not too much of that LA setting > that Chandler is so often tied to. The Long Goodbye is a great male > bonding story, again with great characters. It does have that sad scene > where the author tries to committ suicide, and we now Chandler tries the > same thing. Sad. > > - > # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" > # to majordomo@icomm.ca - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca