Jim Blue says of Matrixtech's comments:
>>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<<
>>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.<<
I had a similar reaction to matrixtech's post on this
subject.
We are talking hardboiled fiction here. If we turn it into
hardboiled "literature," I'm afraid we will greatly limit out
discussion.
In fact, the only topic may become "What is
literature?"
Jack Bludis
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