David Lane (dalane@argonet.co.uk)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:15:30 +0000 (GMT)
In article <004701bf52d5$6a0cd200$16c5adce@tstock.lightspeed.net>,
<tstock@concentric.net>
wrote:
> I am curious why your lists are so narrow
...
Age in my case. I came to hard-boiled in the late sixties. I
read what I could get, as the early stuff began to be
reprinted, I went crazy and bought whatever I could lay my
hands on. It got easier when the books began to be imported
again. In the last twenty years most of the titles that I
would want to read have been available by UK publisher
editions or by imports.
> and would be interested to hear whether you think
Block's Scudder books,
> Mosley and Bowen qualify as hard-boiled and
why.
Never took to Scudder. It's the self-pity, endless preaching
about alcoholism and the endless waffling. Take out the
alcholism and you account for a surpising number of
contemporary writers; Burke and Paretsky amongst
others.
Mosley, I like reading, but he's not hard-boiled.
Bowen haven't read. Have you got any titles of histhat I
could check out? Going up to London at the end of January, I
feel the need to spend lots of money on new writers (to me at
least).
David
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