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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Lynds"
<dennislynds@c...> wrote:
> If I can put in my newcomer's two-cents, a few years
ago I reread all of
> Hammet's novels, and RED HARVEST does not stand up.
It's cliched and
> terribly dated. On the other hand I was totally
surprised by THE THIN MAN.
> If you read it carefully, and try to forget the
movie, it's a pretty damn
> good novel with much to say. The three in the middle
hold up just fine, and
> THIN MAN deserves a reassessment, Robert Parker to
the contrary.
I reread them several years ago, and I found Red Harvest dry
but readable and with plenty of punch. But the surprise was
The Dain Curse, which I loved. At the time I was reading
people like Theodore Sturgeon and Fritz Leiber, and Dain fit
in very nicely. I say it with full knowledge that nobody
gives a dime for this novel... and the first time I had read
it, it had left me cold (perhaps becuse I hadn't seen the
irony in it). The same thing happened to me with Nelson
Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side... a second reading
corrected that and now I would say the book is essential
reading... More about Algren later, since our guest has
mentioned him and I know Algren has several other fans
here.
Best,
MrT
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