Hi all,
I suppose my favorite opening line in
HB is Chandler's beginning to The Long Goodbye, "The first
time I ever saw Terry Lenox, etc. etc. but Jack Trolley has a
couple of fine openings as does Leonard.
The reason (I think) some of us
prefer Leonard to most others is that he speaks to us as
accomplices. Probably, much of this comes from the
conversational nature of his style and his use of dialogue, a
bit from his
"observer," viewpoint, and the rest from his attitude about
his characters, their situation and the world in general. If
Leonard is your guy, even his weak stuff is told in a way
that entertains, makes you smile, delivers some truth about
the way we behave, and that lets us in on the joke, whatever
it is.
Jim
Blue
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