Jim Doherty mentioned his belief that most people on this
list were first
"blown away" by a hard-boiled writer while they were in high
school. I'm wondering if that is true, just as I am wondering
if most of you were born after '58, as another recent post
suggested.
I was in high school in 1958, with my reading basically
consisting of what was assigned in class. I spent most of the
60's as an on-again off-again literature major, again reading
assigned books, plus Kerouac, Hesse, Tolkein, Heinlein and
others that were popular at that time. Next followed a period
of reading primarily fantasy and science fiction, but I
finally found myself burned out on that about 5 or 6 years
ago, at which time I started reading mysteries. Of course
there were overlaps; I think I read my first Hammett a couple
of decades ago, led there by Lillian Hellman's
Pentimiento.
At any rate, rather than accepting the generalizations I've
seen posted to this group, I'm curious about your ages and
reading history.
Teri
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