--- Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
Still, no one has
> written better than Postman, Double Indemnity,
and
> Serenade.
I've been trying to stay out of this but the mention of
Postman is more of a lure than I can resist. When I wrote
about Miami Purity and then when I started watching early
noir films I reread Postman and I think Visconti did a way
better version than Cain did. Cain's Postman bogs in all the
legal sideroads and subplots with wild cats and whatnot. It's
really a clunky book as far as I'm concerned. I've been
meaning to read his other stuff but right now I'm slammed
with material for the site. Is Serenade the novel about the
opera singer? I remember having a lot of trouble with the
plausibilty of the story. It's all a matter of what floats
your boat, I guess. But Cain isn't on my list of stuff to
read for fun.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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