thanks mark,
i wrote those down. i came back from the lake on sunday and
my amazon order was laying on the porch. very fast shipping
time! on my doorstep 3 days after i ordered them.
i put them all in copyright order and started with hammet's
red harvest. lean straightforward prose. short tight
sentences. hmm... this all sounds VERY familiar. i need to
dig up a chronology of hemingway's books, but i'm thinking
_in our time_ and _the sun also rises_ came out around 1925.
wonder if hammet was influenced by hemingway?
miker
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> Miker, which Block book did you read? He has a wide
variety of styles.
> If you intend to give him another try you might want
to check out Eight
> Million Ways to Die, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
or one of the
> recently listed one-offs.
>
> As for Elmore Leonard, I think most on this list
would agree that Get
> Shorty is past his prime, an amusing Hollywood novel
at best. I'd
> recommend trying one of his Detroit novels -- City
Primeval, Swag (AKA
> Ryan's Rules), Split Images, Unknown Man No. 89.
They are tight crime
> novels, not humorous caper books.
>
> Mark
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