In a message dated 27/08/01 03:46:49 GMT Daylight Time,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net writes:
<<
We are reading a fictional genre, not true crime (not
claiming that the
literature of true crime is not a genre of its
own).
>>
I agree, and would say to you all now: NEVER POST WHEN TIPSY
Sorry, yep I got my Spade's and Marlowe's in a twist.
However, I think my rant had a core of truth to it.... As to
the truth of HB, I don't really mean versimilitude, I
wouldn't know how a 1950's LA vice cop should behave anyway,
but a moral truth. I am only going on what I have read and
liked which is mainly Thompson, Derek Raymond, Hammett,
Chandler, Woolrich, Ellroy, Goodis and Bunker... I think they
are great writers and do write moral truths, I was first
switched on to Thompson by a cover blurb that called him the
"dime-store Dostoyevsky," and I do think that some writers in
HB are worthy of that comparison. Gawd bless subjectivity.
All the best all Yrs in Sobriety Colin
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