Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>
> Could we just get on with it, please? Geniuses?
Classics?
> Masterpieces? Zzzzzzz....
I second that Zzzzzzz...
> 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
SERENADE and CAREER IN C MAJOR are worth reading, and some of
the short stories collected in THE BABY IN THE ICEBOX.
Cain claimed he wasn't a hardboiled writer. Un huh -- and
George V. Higgins claimed he wasn't a crime writer, and Kurt
Vonnegut and Harlan Ellison claim they're not science fiction
writers. Nobody here but us chickens, I guess.
BobT
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