Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled

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• Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled
• From: AnnyMiddon@aol.com
• Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:05:44 -0500 (EST)
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In a message dated 97-01-14 00:14:23 EST, buff@vex.net (William Denton)
writes:

> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 AnnyMiddon@aol.com wrote:
>  
>  : This may have been answered before, and will doubtless be a FAQ -
>  : but what is the definition of Hardboiled?  I've been calling Sara
>  : Paretsky's V. I.  Warshawski books hb for years now.  Am I right in
>  : doing so?
>  
>  I don't think so, I'm afraid.  Her stuff is the kind of thing that
>  passes for hardboiled these days, but I find it pretty soft.  Maybe I
>  should pick up the latest one and see if she's different, but in terms
>  of hardness, the V.I. I remember would last about two seconds against
>  someone out of Ellroy's _White Jazz_[1], and the Continental Op would
>  roll right over her.

Then can I assume that Robert Parker's Spenser is not hardboiled either?
 (I'd pick V.I. over Spenser any day, and probably in the first three
rounds.)

Anny
AnnyMiddon@aol.com
 

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