I been shockingly lazy lately,let the list thing go past me,
but the old man/woman thing has stirred me from my lethargy.
I can't say why I like hb rather than "softboiled" fiction, I
think it's the old escapist thing; I can't get further away
from my boring rural life than the mean streets inhabited in
my favourite books,be it LA,NY or Edinburugh and I sincerely
hope and pray that I never ever get into situations therein-
probably the same reason I used to read SF as a teenager,
again not a 'female' genre. Carrie said.....I should also say
that I know lots of guys but no women who are big Ellroy
fans, Hey, I'm over here! In fact it was Mr E that got my
(and my husband's) HB obsession into full flower, BUT
probably if I ever got stuck in that fictional lift with any
of his characters, I'd be climbing out of that escape hatch
and up that cable before you could say "Pacific Dining Car"
George said"....Granted that any such generalization could be
only so accurate, I wonder how different those lists would
be?" Ahh the list, now usually I don't do the generalistion
according to gender thing,be it in reading matter or whatever
BUT I will make an exception when it comes to lists. Men make
lists,anally retentive men make lists, and I don't mean that
unkindly in any way I am married to the most a.r.man in the
world (lists on; books,films,music-soul,punk,reggae
etc,birds-especially the rara ones(HoHo)) (I'm sure I'll be
slapped by all my avian sisters that contributed), I'm sorry
I'm sure that the list was of vital import, but I really just
couldn't be ars......,bothered. Oh god I'm being overcome
with ennui again. jane
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