In a message dated 4/29/02 4:00:34 PM,
BaxDeal@aol.com writes: << uncompromising? >>
To which Jim Blue responded:
> > There is something that has to do with tenacity
or determination that
goes
> beyond the word "tough."
>
Yes, and there's also something nonconformist about
hardboiled. Not anticonformist--doing the opposite of what
you're supposed to be doing--but just doing what you think is
right for you to do, regardless of what everyone else is
doing, wanting, saying. New Age types might say
centered.
BTW, this list has mentioned Atticus
Kodiak, and I picked up _Shooting at Midnight._ I liked it
and the protagonist, Bridgett Logan--definitely
hardboiled--but apparently this book is sort of a
stand-alone. The usual series protagonist, Atticus, comes
across as a total dud in this book. Is he always so dull and
bourgeois?
Joy
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