>much as I loved The Maltese Falcon, The Drowning Pool,
etc., I've reread
>them several times, and I find it hard to justify
re-reading them right
>now, especially with a huge TBR pile just lurking
there, threatening to
>topple over.
The reading, Kev, is voluntary.
There was much discussion on this some time ago --- maybe
before you
joined us? --- and the value of group reading was explored,
and the
titles to be read were generated by list members. Have a
rummage
through the archives to see some of the turns the discussion
took.
>So, you wanna talk about The Maltese Falcon, go ahead
and talk.
"We will," he replied. His pink face was shiny with
delight.
>Here's a topic that came up in a mystery fiction
course a few years
>back. Were Spade and Archer lovers? Is that why Brigid
gets sent over? Or
>is a gunsel sometimes just a gunsel? Discuss this
among yourselves...
"Now, sir, we'll talk if you like. And I'll tell you right
out
that I'm a man who likes talking to a man that likes to
talk."
And if you're gonna raise these kind of interesting topics, I
hope that
you'll join in the talk.
btw, there are 102 occurrences of the root /talk/ in The
Maltese Falcon,
so in some ways it is a novel *about* talking.
ED
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