--- "Mark R. Harris" <
brokerharris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me just jump in here and say that
Bellem's
> badness is his goodness, a la
> Harry Stephen Keeler, Michael Avallone, etc.
For
> further illumination on
> this, read Bill Pronzini's Gun in Cheek and Son
of
> Gun in Cheek.
>
> That said, this doesn't exonerate everyone's
bad
> prose -- only those who
> take it to the level of a fully achieved
anti-style.
**************************************************** Perhaps
I take my crime fiction too seriously. I just can't get
grabbed by a story so poorly structured. Leonard I find
funny. Bellem I find boring.
Patrick King
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