Double Indemnity is a special book, but I've liked most of
James M. Cain's books, even The Butterfly, although I like
Hammett a lot more. Two totally different styles and I can
believe that neither of them read each other. Btw. It's been
years since I saw the movie version of The Butterfly, but as
chessy as it was I kind of liked it.
--Dave Zeltserman
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck Emerson"
<chuckelp@...> wrote:
>
> just finished reading
> The Butterfly..............
> reprinted by Vintage in Three from
Cain..........
> therein is printed a preface Cain wrote to The
Butterfly.
> Read like his version of On Writing.
> six pages well worth the stopping by to see him
separate himself
humbly from
> Hemingway and shrug off any resemblance to Hammett
("I've only
read 20 pages
> of him in my life....")
> I particularly liked his call for fiction writers to
dispense
with "hesaid"
>
> I still like Double Indemnity the best.
>
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