--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "J.C. Hocking" <jchocking@...> wrote:
>
> Aw hell, I gotta stand up for Daly a little.
> His short stories are much more enjoyable than his novels. He gets to focus on the action and violence and tough-guy dialogue without worrying about sustaining much of a plot. His prose is mallet-like and his plots absurd, but in the short form this doesn't get in the way of an amusing payoff of hardboiled entertainment.
> Just my two-cents, adjusted for inflation since the days of Black Mask.
>
Ha... well, the fact that his stories are awful is not reason not to LOVE them... I think pretty much all of us here have dipped into Daly, some of us far more than dipped! A novel like The Hidden Hand you could not find anywhere else at any price. It is so terrible it becomes brilliant.
Best,
mrt
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