Scatalogic wrote:
>Wasn't Chandler the unfortunate recipient of an
English Public School
>education? (translates as private school), perhaps
that helped shape his
>writing and the "outsider" perspective?
Unfortunate? It seems to have helped turned him into one hell
of a writer. And there's a simple reason he had an outsider
perspective. He was an outsider. Chandler was always very
conscious of it, and never really thought of himself as
completely American.
And it's a funny thing. The weak characters, general
artificialness and forced-down-your-throat bleakness some of
you claim to find in British HB is exactly the sort of thing
I didn't like about Boston Terrier's GOD IS A BULLET, which
was -- here's the funny part -- far better received in the
U.K. than it was in North America.
Marianne, we'll have to talk.
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