...true your view on the quote which I just picked up on his
website anyway...and added since he¹s been quite bashed on
usually by fellow
Œmystery¹ US writers and US Œmystery¹ critics...
...independantly of that quote I still agree that Burke early
novels were as tough/noir as any written character that I
have encountered anywhere...
....because if we go to films I/we have to mention first
Keitel¹s Bad Lieutenant...
Montois
On 2/17/05 5:44 PM, "Keith Sparrow" <
ksparrow@buckeye-express.com> wrote:
> Michael Robinson wrote
>> > The difference between noir film and noir
fiction goes
>> > way beyond the media, so the quote is
indulging an
>> > apples and oranges comparison.
>> >
>> > miker
>
> Don't disagree, but I can't recall, now at least,
any darker books
> than Vachss early Burke novels! His brooding soul
and disenfranchisement
> and the bleak settings of his home and community! Oh
my! Sad to discover
> that Mr. Vachss has started to mainstream Burke.
Also thought that early
> Scudder, before he -- gasp! -- got married again and
settled down, had
> that similiar black/bleak feel.
>
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