Very nicely said. Let's compare to, oh, I don't know, tennis.
They don't use wooden rackets anymore in the pros, but it's
still tennis, ain't it? The only way to keep things fresh is
to roll with the tide, because we have no idea what will
happen in the world next. A lot of writers now I see are
getting tagged with "neo-noir" by critics. Why not still just
say noir? It's not "neo-tennis" after all.
Neil Smith
> HB detectives don't use cellphones? What
crap!
>
> One of the most unrealistic and annoying trends of
the entire P.I.
> genre in the last few decades was the pathetic and
totally
> unrealistic way many writers still try to pretend it
was 1942, or
> maybe 1953. Finally, it's starting to
change.
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