Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> Didn't you guys read what I said?
> You guys don't have to like Spenser, and I never
said you had to, but
> you can't criticize him on one hand for all the very
un-Marlowe-like
> things he does, and then on the other write him off
as an empty copy.
I've never done that, since I haven't been interested in the
books so much as to have read the later novels. I think it's
fine if Parker and Spenser have moved beyond Chandler.
Chandler is great, but like you say 1949 is over.
(Chandler didn't publish anything in 1949, am I right?)
> If you want to really look at empty mimickry, look
at all the Spenser
> clones that have popped up in the last twenty or so
years. Some of
> those series have been running on second-hand fumes
for years now,
> with nary a glimpse of originality in
sight.
Sounds very ugly...
Juri
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