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14:27:22 -0400 From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS:
Neo-nah...
> 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.
>
I stopped reading Charlie Huston's Caught Stealing because
the torture in it bothered me.
Jordan
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