well i posted about an "obscure" book by earl thompson and
immediately got two posts on it. i should have known better
than to think i could come up with something no one had read.
haha.
so i tried to think up some other "obscure" title to mention.
the _dogs of god_ came to mind, by pinckney benedict. but i
believe i've seen reference to benedict in here before.
detectives and police aren't a big part of this book either,
but i'm guessing that it is totally hard boiled. the fight
scene was good, but i think the best scene in the book
featured a pack of wild pigs laying waste to a house. ugly,
powerful, savage, and brutal.
mark and jim have got me thinking about the hardboiled genre,
and i'm starting to see a lot more examples of books i
wouldn't have thought of as hb earlier. for instance,
hemingway's _to have and have not_ is hb. and some of his
stories are too. obviously "the killers" is, and maybe some
of the nick adams stories, too.
miker
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