> Thanks, Jim.
>
> Hmmmm, "...effusive, overblown, pretentious dreck."
Almost sounds kind of
like
> a return to Thomas Wolfe, doesn't it?
> I guess we all can agree on one thing: whatever
hardboiled is, it ain't
Thomas
> Wolfe.
Absolutely correct, it ain't.
That said, Thomas Wolfe is my favorite author of all time,
with Chandler second. I don't find either of them overblown,
pretentious, or dreck. In wildly different ways, they each
thrill me, no matter how many times I read them. And I do,
over and over and over.
Jim Beaver
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