In a message dated 7/23/03 5:35:06 PM,
matrxtech@yahoo.com writes:
<< In any case, my apologies if I offended you
personally. >>
No apology necessary. I've been at
RARA for about three years now and think I have a decent
picture of what we do here. I'm always a bit prickly when I
hear someone suggest that one writer or another is not worthy
of discusssion. It always feels a tad elitist to me, because
it rests in the end on well informed, but ultimately
subjective judgments. I don't mind criticizing authors or
their work, but I dislike efforts to send them beneath the
salt.
Also, I guess that your lack of
concern in the past about the literary quality of works
relating the adventures of such marvelous but one demensional
protagonists as Mike Hammer, Shell Scott, Mike Shayne, Dan
Turner and others, made me wonder why you chose to draw an
acceptability line above the heads of these two women and
their authors.
It doesn't matter really. You and I
see these writers and their work differently. I admire
Grafton's attention to her craft, and I know from the brief
discussions I've had with Paretsky that she is aiming higher
than you believe she is hitting. I think they hold their own
in terms of quality with many of the writers we discuss
regularly here. You obviously feel otherwise.
Jim
Blue
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