: So, for those of us who have already read and reread all
the great
: hardboiled writers and would like to discuss hard-boiled
and noirish
: in a contemporary setting, why not include new crime
novelists whose
: poin of view is that of the killer (and a serial killer is
really
: iften just a killer who gets away with it) or that of an
FBI
: profiler, or even the victim?
We can do that ... if it's hardboiled, or there's sufficient
evidence
to merit debate on the subject.
: Must we read only new crime novels set in the past (or
great oldies
: Out of the Past)?
No ... but we must read hardboiled stories, because that's
what the
list is about.
We don't all sit around re-reading our Frank Gruber stories,
or
bemoaning the state of the mystery since Spillane started
acting. But
we're all hardboiled fans, and we're not going to start
reading, I
don't know, Nelson DeMille or someone like that. "New crime
novelist
whose point of view is the killer" is not sufficient reason
for
hardboiled fans to run out to the bookstore.
Bill
-- William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector. "Let's keep the party polite."
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