Something that many of us at Rara_Avis miss is that not all
of Chandler and Hammett was great. It's a comment rarely made
here. Many of us seem to have the opinion that just because C
or H wrote it, it must be good. Some of it is just crap where
we are treated ti the development of the hardboiled
genre.
Many of their Black Mask stories were just "shoot
'em ups." with little character develoment and hardly any
story line. For me, even *Red Harvest,* a combination of six
novellas with each judged individually, is just a shoot 'em
up.
It was the demand of the pulp fiction crime story of the day.
Others who wrote this stuff are forgotten beccause they never
went on to write great novels as Chandler and Harris
did.
Jack Bludis
http://www.jackbludis.com
-- updated
"Shadow of the Dahlia" now at BN.com
"Shadow" has been nominated for a Shamus
__________________________________________________ Do You
Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
--------------------~--> What would our lives be like
without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the
arts today at Network for Good!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/kqIolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:
rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 04 May 2005 EDT