Just read 3 to Kill. Thought it was fantastic. The narrative
was all over the place but I'm thinking that's why the French
got so hot for it, found it so freeing. This is probably the
first existential noir/crime book I've read where the tag
didn't just mean lit or pretentious and vague. What I really
dug was the realism. People I read today who dip into these
waters seem so stylized and comic-bookish. I wonder if it's
possible that modern noir - stuff that's not just playing
with the same old bells and whistles - lives now somewhere
outside of the noir neighborhood?
adam
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