No offense, but I think this is just plain silly. FAREWELL,
MY LOVELY is a good book period -- whether it's the first
edition, or a battered paperback, or the LOA edition, or
written on grocery bags with crayon. To focus on anything
else is really to focus on ornamental stuff, nothing
important.
Once I scrape together the cash I'm getting the LOA editions
myself. They're durable, sturdy volumes that bear up under
use. I'm particularly interested in the first of the
Polito-edited volumes: if I remember right that one has
THIEVES LIKE US, a book I've been long searching for.
doug
---
Sllichtman@aol.com wrote:
> Am I the only one who doesn't think its as much
fun
> to read Chandler and
> Hammett in the very august packaging of the
LOA?
> Same is true for the works
> included in the Polito-edited noir volumes. Much
as
> I appreciate their
> inclusion in the LOA as validation of these works
as
> literature worthy of the
> best the U.S. has to offer, I think there's
an
> aesthetic disconnect in
> reading these works in that format.
>
> Just my $0.02.
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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