I love the ³....Hardboiled? Soft-boiled? Parboiled?.... ³ and
I have looked for and seen many other combinations...
....in that vein and to help the overall wit-level on rara I
strongly recommend the following website: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/...
...where I found this highly relevant strip...given some of
the recent
³woody² controversies...
Enjoy,
Montois
On 2/24/08 11:44 AM, "Kevin Burton Smith" <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> wrote:
> Dick wrote:
>
>> > Hardboiled? Soft-boiled? Parboiled? I
suppose it's in the mind of the
>> > reader. But I think some (not all) of
Francis' novels are filled
>> > with too
>> > much sadistic violence and detailed
torture, too many depressed
>> > heroes with
>> > wives or relatives dying of cancer or
living in iron lungs, too many
>> > animal
>> > mutilations, too many truly sociopathic
villains to be put in the
>> > Christie-Queen-Stout category. And if the
Sid Halley novels aren't
>> > hardboiled, with the hapless
jockey-turned-private detective getting
>> > more of
>> > his destroyed hand lopped off in each, then
I'd be hard-pressed to
>> > come up
>> > with a book that is.
>
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