Don't get me wrong. I liked reading POODLE SPRINGS, and I'm
well aware that
most of it was written by Parker, and that therefore it must,
by needs,
contain more of his voice than Chandler's. I just prefer
Chandler's, no
matter how impossible it is to get new writing from him
nowadays. I did not
and would not trash Parker for the effort, which I thought
was honorable and
mildly successful. It's just that Chandler and Parker have,
to my ear, very
distinct voices, and Parker was attempting to work as closely
to Chandler's
as possible in this instance, was he not? I simply felt that
he did not
mask himself in the midst of his Chandler-impression enough
for the work to
be fully successful as "almost Chandler." Perhaps I'm wrong,
but I suspect
that was Parker's goal. I liked the book. I liked the movie
maybe even a
tad more.
Jim Beaver
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