so Race Williams and Mike Hammer are sleaze??? They are
criminals???
I object to that. Just finished "One Lonely Night" tonight.
Hammer isn't a criminal (in the book). He's a crusader of
sorts. Race Williams is a similar character. They only kill
those characters that need to be killed. There are no
innocent bystanders that catch bullets. Only those who need
killing get killed.
The judge alluded to in the beginning of "One Lonely Night"
would agree that these characters are sleaze and criminals,
but I don't agree.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Robison" <
zspider@gte.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002
12:01 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: New hardboiled definition
> This is a definition of hard-boiled from
MysteryGuide.com. Pay special
> attention to the last sentence. No wonder we're all
hardboiled fans.
>
> Books we classify as hard-boiled are set among
criminals rather than
> crimefighters. A typical storyline concerns revenge,
vigilante
> justice, or the commission (rather than detection)
of a crime; the
> classic narrative style is terse, colloquial, and
stripped-down. The
> subject matter may include hellish marriages, sexual
abuse, drug and
> alcohol addiction, prison life, or other similarly
intense antisocial
> experiences. Potential readers should be prepared
for a shocking or
> offensive experience if they choose to pick up a
hard-boiled novel.
> Our former category Sleaze has been incorporated
into the Hard-boiled
> subgenre.
>
> miker
>
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