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Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V1 #54
TERRY MCCOMBS wrote:
>
> -> Any book when someone holds another person's face against the red-hot
> -> electric burner of a stove to make him talk is hard-boiled. Yes,
> -> American Tabloid is hard boiled.
>
> So, just nasty brutality makes for hard-boiled? So then does that put
> John Norman's Planet Gor novels in? To say nothing of the first
> hard-boiled book _The 1001 Nights of Sodom by de Sade! But that would
> leave out the likes of....well why list them? Most all of the fathers of
> hard-boiled.
>
> I would say that to be sure the above could very much be part of a HB
> story, BUT it does not have to be, and is not the main element.
OK. OK. You win. I'm an extremist. Some hard-boiled boys are. Especially
for books with an Ellroy name on them.
Richard King
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