On 22 March 2003, Bill Bowers wrote:
: All that aside, yes, I quite agree: THE LAST GOOD KISS is
Crumley's tour
: de force, and anyone who wants to maintain any hard-boiled
cred at all
: ... should read it!
I finished it, and I agree. Most people on the list will
recognize the elements of the plot and where the characters
fall, but that's no strike against it. It's beautifully
written and everyone's very real. And, being of the 1970s,
it's got a messy, dirty, feeling, where everything's going to
hell, post-Vietnam, post-summer of love, post-Watergate. I
felt kind of dirty when I finished it. I don't know what I'd
do if I ever met C.W. Sughrue.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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