Miles wrote:
"I suspect that one of the reasons long sentances,
adjectives, adverbs and other devices are out of favor is due
to the reading habits and abilities of the current generation
(including mine, the BBs). Everything is short now."
Say what? Maybe in movies and on TV, but not in books. Ellroy
is short? Lehane is short? Rankin is short? Block is short?
Chabon is short? Harry Potter is short? Not saying it applies
to any of those just mentioned (at least not all of their
work), but I, and others on the list, have often complained
that many crime novels now seem padded to increase page
counts as if the books were being sold by the pound. Many a
potential contemporary Gold Medal thriller is buried under
unwanted and uninteresting personal details -- for instance,
what the hell was up with the funeral and sons subplot in the
last Matt Scudder?
Mark
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