----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Toomey >
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... But where is Fredric Brown? Richard S. Prather? Paul
Cain? W.
> R. Burnett? Cleve Adams? Raoul Whitfield? Earl
Stanley
> Gardner? And many others. I know -- they're not on
anybody's top
> five list, including mine. But they toiled the
fields, they did
> good work, and they should be
acknowledged.
>
Yes they did and I don't think that their work was denigrated
in any way. The list as I read it wasn't meant to be a list
of favourites, or best of, but those who made you go whooo! I
made the mistake of rushing into making my list, after
thinking more I would have changed a few (but maybe one
should go with impulses, prevarication leads to indecision)
the main one being Andrew Vachss, who wouldn't appear in my
current list of faves. I read a load of his stuff as fast as
I could buy it, but I soon became jaded with his work. I
think this probably happens a lot with other people, other
authors.(other genres, I remember a very embarassing teenage
thing with Michael Moorcock books) You and your tastes
change, you mature, you find writers who still make you go
whoo, but after that initial rush you can still find
something that resonates within you. Jane
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