I know. Lots of people disagree with me. I just don't know
why. I've read Hammett's works several time and the only ones
that work for me are Falcon & Thin Man. The rest are just
not well plotted and the characters are not memorable to me.
I'm sorry, but the Op is like a cartoon character. Mike
Hammer has greater depth, and he is a cartoon character. It's
interesting to me because both Nick Charles and Sam Spade are
very well-drawn personalities. What do you like about the
other Hammett books?
Patrick King
--- Dave Zeltserman <
dz@hardluckstories.com> wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> I could not disagree more with you about
the
> Continental Op which I
> consider some of the best crime fiction
written.
> Btw. You left out Red
> Harvest which has made a number of best 100
book
> lists, including Time
> Magazines.
>
> --Dave
>
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
> <abrasax93@...> wrote:
> >
> > All of Cain's books are interesting and most
of
> them
> > are great novels. While Hammett's The Thin Man
&
> The
> > Maltese Falcon are great books, the others
tell
> the
> > breakneck speed he wrote at. The Glass Key,
The
> Dane's
> > Curse are pretty awful in my opinion, and
the
> > Continental Op is a cartoon. I would say
Cain's
> only
> > equal is Jim Thompson. They're, of couse,
much
> > different stylists, but their quaility
is
> consistent
> > from book to book.
> >
> > Patrick King
> > --- Dave Zeltserman <dz@...>
wrote:
>
>
>
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