Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Southern Fried hard-boiled writing

From: Stewart Wilson ( stewart@stewartwilson.com)
Date: 25 Apr 2005


I enjoyed DOWN ON PONCE, but I found the humour was more Hiassen-like than Crumley-like. It was high on irony, but most of the humour was more direct, leading to an 'anything can happen' atmosphere, and taking away from any sense of realism. I find Crumley, on the other hand, to be as funny but more realistic, even though his characters go through situations as absurd as Williard's.

Cheers,
--Stewart

Duane Spurlock wrote:
>
> DOWN ON PONCE features lots of New South rednecks and Crumley-like
> drug-and-drink-inspired violence and hard-boiled humor.

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