>I cannot agree that Willefords bad guy's are
'unbelievable'. They are
>scary,weird and bad precisely because they are very
real people.
Criminitily, you have an overactive imagination . . . or else
we run in
circles of wholly different people. You might want to write a
book about
these real people.
>Also:
>"They're all worth reading as minor
entertainments."
>
>Honestly, there's nothing 'minor' about them. They are
amongst the
>best the genre has to offer. Cannot thing of many who
could stake a
>claim to be 'mayor' if these are 'minor'.
I don't give a shit about the genre, but I get the drift from
reading
Willeford he would be cackling like a hen at you for thinking
him a
highfalutin "major" author. It's pulp, man. It's $4.50 pulp,
but it's
still pulp. Won't no one remember Willeford 100 years from
now.
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