Ned Fleming:
>
> To be honest, the above three just barely make the
"blown away" cut.
> None of them compare to the -- what do I call it? --
sudden
> intuitive realization of reading a masterpiece as
Patrick O'Brian's
> "Master and Commander" gave me. But O'Brian operates
in another
> genre, heck, I'll say it, another level, than does
hardboiled
> literature.
Techically, the books could qualify for mention becuse
Maturin is a spy and there is plenty in the series that could
be considered hard boiled, but I think O'Brian's style and
treatment of his material is so much like something written
in the nineteenth century that it would fail even a very
liberalized definition of hard boiled. Mark
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