Kevin Smith (kvnsmith@colba.net)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 02:25:30 -0400
>Sue Grafton wrote . . . writes . . fantasies of what
being a PI is like.
Oh, good one. As opposed to the real life stuff of Daly and
Chandler and Macdonald and everyone else from Adams to, er,
Zackel. Hey, it's almost all fantasy, even from the guys who
actually walked the walk, like Hammett and Gores.
But what do I know? I didn't even know wolves, lone or
otherwise, could row a boat, never mind up river.
>Evanovich is not only -not- funny but
illiterate.
Okay, an argument could be made about her hardboiledness, or
maybe even about if they're funny or not, but the author
herself is illiterate? "Puss puss," as Bacall said in
HARPER.
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