Bob sed:
> And what about Thompson's "Hell's Angels"? A classic
piece of
> reportage, not filled with drug induced horrors, but
definitely
> hardboiled.
>
> Do we exclude books from our lists just because
they're non-fiction?
No, not at all. I immediately regreted saying that
non-fiction automatically warrants exclusion fron hard-boiled
status. You're absolutely right, since Hell's Angels is a
prime candidate.
I found Fear and Loathing so surreal that I hesitated in
considering it hard-boiled. Hell's Angels though is a
stronger candidate. I'll have to give Fear and Loathing
another read.
See, the surrealism of it doesn't seem to fit the hard-boiled
mode to me. Burroughs did some hard-boiled stuff: Junky and
Queer. But I can't fit the bulk of his surreal work into the
tradtition.
I'm certainly open-minded about it all though.
Tribe
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