RARA-AVIS: Re: James M. Cain

From: Richard Moore ( moorich@aol.com)
Date: 01 Oct 2007


--- 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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