That writing fast is not always a good thing if it isn't
followed by careful editing. I feel those books didn't work.
But he wrote Falcon as fast as he wrote anything and it's
damned near perfect.
Patrick King
--- Richard Moore <
moorich@aol.com> wrote:
> --- 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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