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Re: RARA-AVIS: hardboiled definition and Chandler readings
really appreciate Gary's communication.
just re-read _High Sierra_ which has always been a favorite of mine.
seems to me that Burnett writes with hard-boiled humanity. maybe it is just
his fluid style of writing, but his books always make me think that maybe,
somewhere, there beats a heart in the hard-boiled body.
bbbbbob@earthlink.net
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> From: Gary Warren Niebuhr <piesbook@execpc.com>
> To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: hardboiled definition and Chandler readings
> Date: Saturday, March 01, 1997 6:27 PM
>
> I think that Ross Macdonald had a great definition of what a hardboiled
> story is in The Way Some People Die when Archer says, "She lived in a
world
> where people did this or that because they were good or evil. In my
world
> people acted because they had to...the things you had to do in my world
> made you good or evil in hers."
>
> I had a chance to re-read The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye recently.
> Chandler does not age with time nor does he lose anything if you are
> working through the books for the umpty-ump time. The Big Sleep is an
> exciting story with real characters, but not too much of that LA setting
> that Chandler is so often tied to. The Long Goodbye is a great male
> bonding story, again with great characters. It does have that sad scene
> where the author tries to committ suicide, and we now Chandler tries the
> same thing. Sad.
>
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