Re: RARA-AVIS: Picking at the Falcon

Lawrence R. (goldensam@sprintmail.com)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:59:54 -0400 Has Diane ever dipped into a rather gender oriented list that I hesitate to
identify further?
If so, her knickers are probably so twisted that she will need six orthopedic
surgeons to get her out of them :-)

Diane Trap wrote:

> > Bill, if you are just finding this "slip" you have been "nodding" <g>.
> > Just remember in the words of the great Bob Wade "you can't outline
> > Chandler" and in my opinion, you can't outline Hammett either. That is
> > why men read those books and women read Agatha Christie--men like
> > stories and women like characters (although anyone who says Christie
> > "developed characters" is also nodding)
>
> Y'know, Mari, assigning readership based on gender just puts my
> knickers in a twist. I would give Christie (happily--can't stand her)
> to those people who favor tight plotting (like written-from-an
> -outline tight), knotty problems (like locked room mysteries), and tidy
> endings--her books have the emotional punch of the daily crossword.
>
> Writers like Chandler and Ellroy and Hammett feature freewheeling
> storytelling and unhealthy overloads of moral ambiguities, and yes,
> characters, characters, characters, from the creepy yellow-eyed
> Sam Spade to the paladinesque Marlowe to Ellroy's cast of thousands.
>
> I'd flounder among generalities some more but I have to go back to
> work now. More later, maybe.
>
> -----Diane Trap
> trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu
>
> > --
> > >From Mari Hall Found.Dead.In.Texas@airmail.net
> > whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
> > The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
> > See y'all at Bouchercon 29 in Philly Oct.1-4
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Dick

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