Kevin: I second your recommendation of Shanno's books. Love
them. Weird and wonderful style.
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kvnsmith@colba.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 4:49
PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Are they still talking about
definitions?
> Could we just get on with it, please? Geniuses?
Classics?
> Masterpieces? Zzzzzzz....
>
> Could someone wake me when the class is over, and
just tell me what
> the reading homework is for next class?
>
> By the way, has anyone read MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN by
Jonathan Lethem or
> any of John Shannon's Jack Liffey books. Both very
recommended. There
> are smart and original voices in hardboiled fiction
that don't just
> carry on the tradition, but expand on it.
>
> And this may be pissing in the church, but I always
thought James M.
> Cain to be rather over-rated. His rep rested
primarily on DOUBLE
> INDEMNITY and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. No
argument, as far as
> those go, but the rest of his stuff is pretty
hit-or-miss, much of it
> very minor, and a lot of it isn't even very
hardboiled at all (or
> even very interesting). Give me his short, dirty
little tales of lust
> and deceit over his turgid melodramas any
day.
>
>
> Kevin Burton Smith
> The Thrilling Detective Web Site
> http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
>
> An A&E Mystery.com Site of the Week
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