For sixties month I'm halfway through Willeford's PICKUP,
which I'm sure many if not most on this list have already
read. When I mentioned the book to a friend, he let a major
spoiler slip that surprised me when he said it almost as much
as it would have had I made it to the end without that
knowledge. Now I am picking up on clues that I never would
have noticed otherwise. Not sure if this is a good thing or a
bad thing.
As for the comments on hardboiled hippies: I reread THE LONG
GOODBYE for 50s month, which got me thinking about the
strange and delightful (to me at least) version of Marlowe
that Elliot Gould created for the movie. All of this may be
moot since the movie is from the 70s (or maybe that further
reinforces points made by others earlier), but though Gould's
Marlowe was certainly not a hippie, a lot of the fun came
from watching this guy (who was certainly not Chandler's
Marlowe) interact with hippies.
Chris
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