--- On Tue, 6/10/08, jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm a Bellem fan and I've never gotten tired of his
brilliantly inept stories. Whatever he needs, he brings into
the story. If an evil dwarf will wrap it up, he creates one,
and if the evil dwarf needs to be the incestuous son of the
villain, he makes him one. He's often compared to Prather,
but Prather was realistic, relatively speaking. Bellem was
out there. To speak of bad writing is to miss the point of
his comic genius.
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I recently re-read BAD BOY and POP. 1280 by Jim Thompson. Now
that's noir comic genius! I wonder if Bellem wasn't plain
Leslie Bellem, a girl who wanted to break into fiction at a
time when only guys were selling, so she created this macho
spoof. BLUE MURDER has got to be the worst book I ever read.
How it got published is completely beyond me. He certainly
didn't work from an outline!
Patrick King
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