"Kevin Burton Smith"
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com wrote:
<< I dunno.
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. . . . All the meanness
and carnage of these soulless wallows comes off more like
pornography than noir, at least to me.
>>
Kevin, I agree. I thought it was just my changing
perceptions, but the more I try to read in recent noirish
fiction, the more I find this case you state.
The detailed torture seems written to be titilating. Or for
gross-out shock value (as in slasher films), which grows old
and ineffective after saturating the genre.
I find myself restricting my hard-boiled reading mostly to
older books, these days. - Duane Spurlock
www.pulprack.com
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