Miker wrote:
> Since people can find humor in just about
anything,
> it's hard to peg something as completely devoid
of
> humor but, from my reading, Ross Macdonald
comes
> closer than any other hardboiled/noir
writer.
Read any Pelecanos lately? Try RIGHT AS RAIN. There's a
laugh-riot for ya. I did find humor in that book, though it
struck me as the
unintended-because-it-was-really-intended-to-be-terribly-ironic-stuff
variety of humor. But hey, what do I know. Pelecanos sells,
and that's no lie.
And not to stick up for MacDonald, but after the beating he
took on this list when we group read BLACK MONEY a while
back, I have to say that I do find him funny. For my money
his observational style of writing smacks of Seinfeld's brand
of observational humor, so the humor is there, it's just
neither punny/wisecracky (see Parker, Robert B.) nor
slap-stick (see Hiassen, Carl).
Come to think of it, what about Robert Crais? I have only
read LA REQUIEM, but it didn't seem that funny (although that
Terminator-like partner of Elvis Cole's, Joe
Something-or-other was pretty unintentionally funny to
me).
Your Mileage May Vary-
Brian Thornton
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