Re: RARA-AVIS: Are they still talking about definitions?

From: James Gormley ( jgormley@stny.rr.com)
Date: 28 Apr 2000


Kevin: I second your recommendation of Shanno's books. Love them. Weird and wonderful style.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Burton Smith" < kvnsmith@colba.net> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Are they still talking about definitions?

> Could we just get on with it, please? Geniuses? Classics?
> Masterpieces? Zzzzzzz....
>
> Could someone wake me when the class is over, and just tell me what
> the reading homework is for next class?
>
> By the way, has anyone read MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN by Jonathan Lethem or
> any of John Shannon's Jack Liffey books. Both very recommended. There
> are smart and original voices in hardboiled fiction that don't just
> carry on the tradition, but expand on it.
>
> And this may be pissing in the church, but I always thought James M.
> Cain to be rather over-rated. His rep rested primarily on DOUBLE
> INDEMNITY and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. No argument, as far as
> those go, but the rest of his stuff is pretty hit-or-miss, much of it
> very minor, and a lot of it isn't even very hardboiled at all (or
> even very interesting). Give me his short, dirty little tales of lust
> and deceit over his turgid melodramas any day.
>
>
> Kevin Burton Smith
> The Thrilling Detective Web Site
> http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
>
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