> >brad said:
> > I just bought a second hand copy of Hard
Feelings over the internet
and
> > received it the other day. Inside was this
helpful little note from
the
> > seller:
> >
> > "Probably the worst book ever written. Thanks
for getting it out of
my
> > apartment."
> >
> > Go figure.
>
> go figure?
>
> well, if its anything like thompson's _killer inside
me_ noir, my
guess
> would be characters that he couldn't give a damn
about and a
depressing
> ending that's no different than what's in the
newspapers daily.
>
> is noir really that profound or impressive or
artistic? couldn't one
just
> as easily stick one's head up his ass and wax
poetically about the
dark?
> ;-)
>
> miker
>
Is noir impressive or artistic? Not intrinsically. It's the
artist & the work, not the genre that gives it any value
it may have. A bad noir is just a bad book, period, &
vice versa. The idea that noir & newspapers are
interchangeable on the basis that some people find both
depressing doesn't make much sense to me, I'm afraid.
Although I've never tried sticking my head up my arse (ass) I
very much doubt that it would give me the same stimulation
that I get from a great book, even one that isn't about nice
people who have a nice time & end up even happier at the
end of the book :-)
(& even though I often find the news depressing - unlike
most Thompson novels - I still like to keep up with it. I
like to know what's going on
& it seems to me that ignoring reality is a much closer
analogy to sticking one's head up one's arse than actually
looking at reality head-on).
Rene
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