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Re: RARA-AVIS: Is V.I. Warshawski hardboiled?
>On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, michael david sharp wrote:
>
V.I. What makes
>: her not hardboiled?
> then >William Dentoned:
>I got _Tunnel Vision_ (1994) out of the library and started it
>yesterday, but I put it down after 50 pages and I won't go back.
>depression. It didn't look like it would be a happy book, by any
>means, but it wasn't hard enough. It just didn't have *it*. That's
>the main reason I say it isn't hardboiled, and it's the toughest for
>me to qualify.
>
>There *could* be a hardboiled novel set in Chicago in the nineties with
>a woman P.I. who helps out with a women's shelter, but this sure isn't
>it.
I read _Tunnel Vision_ recently and I enjoyed the parallel stories of the
poor woman living in the tunnels to escape her brutal husband and the rich
woman victim and her dysfunctional family situation. I don't think V.I.
books are supposed to be hardboiled. I don't care for hardboild anyway
except the older ones. But V.I. is a dependable woman character. The V.I.
stories are not English cozy or hardboiled either. Somewhere in between.
They keep my interest and serve the purpose that murder mysteries do in my
life, relaxation. I stay in bed, drink tea, and read a little murder, but
not a hardboiled one. So I agree, to the specific theme of this list she
is probably not your cup of tea, however she is to my taste and I thought
the intertwined plotlines of _Tunnel Vision_ were well woven.
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