Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: James M. Cain

From: Don Lee ( donthepoet@yahoo.com)
Date: 27 Sep 2007


As I recall, Pia Zadora was pretty easy on the eyes in that one...

Don

--- Dave Zeltserman < dz@hardluckstories.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --- In 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> >
>
>
>

       
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