--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> I don't know where I suggested that speed
of
> composition was a bad thing or denigrated any
writer
> for writing fast.
Well, here is what you wrote in your first post on this
subject:
> > --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
> <abrasax93@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > All of Cain's books are interesting and
most of
> them
> > > are great novels. While Hammett's The Thin
Man &
> The
> > > Maltese Falcon are great books, the others
tell
> the
> > > breakneck speed he wrote at. The Glass
Key, The
> Dane's
> > > Curse are pretty awful in my opinion, and
the
> > > Continental Op is a cartoon.
If "...the others tell the breakneck speed he wrote at"
wasn't intended as a negative, what did it mean?
Richard Moore
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