--- Doug Bassett <
dj_bassett@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It also occurred to me that JDM's real influence
has
> played out not in hardboiled novels so much as,
of
> all
> things, horror books. By way of Stephen King
and
> Dean
> Koontz, I suspect, both of whom are JDM fans.
Hell,
> THE STAND is almost "JDM writes THE LORD OF
THE
> RINGS".
I don't know that he sites JDM as an influence, per se, but
King mentions him as an outstanding writer--one that aspiring
writers should read, if I remember the context correctly--in
ON WRITING. Actually, he names a number of hard-boiled
writers.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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