Sharon Villines (sharonvillines@prodigy.net)
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 08:45:39 -0500
> [snip]....Tony Soprano, with a hung dog
> look, lamented the fact that an attempt had been
made on his life by
> "...two guys with 9mm's. My self esteem is at an all
time low". Life,
> for a modern Mafia family, is definitely getting
more complicated.
>[snip].....unless Bobby, a no-mark
> college student civilian, can work something out
he'll be sleeping
> with the fish before you can say "Keep your friends
close....."
> [snip].... very funny. But Wolf doesn't sacrifice
the
> humour for believable characters.
> There's a kangaroo called Ali who offs a
> Mafia consigliere is a scene that had me laughing
out loud.
> It is both original and hilarious
This is likely to be a dumb question but it is important. I'm
working on a classification system for detective fiction--not
with an attempt to classify ALL titles but with an attempt to
classify quintessential examples of various types. At the
moment I'm working with three attitudes or world views that
influence each of the sub-genres:
--traditional or classic which assumes a benevolent social
order,
--hard-boiled or mean streets which assumes a predatory
social order
--comic, which assumes a nonsensical social order
I would expect a description like the one above to indicate a
comic world view. As readers of hard-boiled detective
fiction, what do you think?
Sharon.
-- Sharon Villines, Editor MacGuffin Guide to Detective Fiction http://www.macguffin.net MacGuffinL@onelist.com sharon@macguffin.net
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