Kevin wrote:
"After reading a spate of recent books by some of the more
highly touted practitioners of the "new noir," I've noticed
something.
"Not in all of them, mind you, but in enough of them to be
disturbed by what seems to be a trend. I hope not. Maybe I
just hit a bad string of books (and no, i don't want to name
them)."
Since when have you become so reticent?
"All the meanness and carnage of these soulless wallows comes
off more like pornography than noir, at least to me."
While maybe more prominent, is that really so new? This
sounds like the reaction I had 10-20 years ago to Rex
Miller's Slob, one of the few books I stopped reading without
finishing.
Mark
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