Re: RARA-AVIS: Blown Away


Colonell (colonell@cwia.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:02:43 -0800


> > What established hard boiled authors have ever you read wose work that
so
> > blew you away on first exposure that you tried to find and then read
all
> > they had written as soon as possible? To make sure there are not
really
> > long lists, let's hold down the number to five.
>
My five:

1) James M. Cain 2) Ross McDonald 3) Dorothy B. Hughes 4) Harry Whittington 5) Derek Raymond (up until I WAS DORA SUAREZ, which I started but only read a few pages because the violence was just too much for me)

Does Cornell Woolrich count?

R. Colonell

--
# To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Thu 30 Dec 1999 - 18:00:44 EST