----- Original Message ----- From: "JIM DOHERTY" <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001
3:29 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Red Harvest
> James,
>
> Re your comment below:
>
> > I don't know, I kind of like THE DAIN CURSE
better
> > (maybe because it's more
> > lurid and I'm just that kinda guy), but I've
read
> > RED HARVEST several times
> > and agree that it holds up fine.
>
> I never said I disliked THE DAIN CURSE. It's one
of
> my favorite PI novels (though I do prefer
RED
> HARVEST).
>
> What I said was that the fact that the
serialized
> installments had to do double-duty as
stand-alone
> short stories was more obvious in CURSE (as well as
in
> BLOOD MONEY) than in HARVEST.
Yeah, I'd certainly agree that HARVEST flows a little better
than CURSE. Didn't mean to imply that you disliked
CURSE.
> THE GLASS KEY was also written under
these
> constraints, in, in that book, the seams don't show
at
> all.
This is the only Hammett novel that I've read only once, and
that was nearly thirty years ago. I think I've got to get
around to reading it again.
Best, James
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