RARA-AVIS: Re: Suggestions for monthly topics requested

From: terry bowman ( foolesgold@gmail.com)
Date: 08 Oct 2007


miker wrote:

"8. If you don't think Michael Connelly is writing
 the best damned hardboiled today, how long of a pry
 bar would it take to get your head out of your ass?"

Then 1A would have to be James Lee Burke. I love both of those guys.

TB

--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Mario wrote:
>
> If anyone has a suggestion for monthly topics of
> discussion, please email me privately or post the
> suggestions here.
>
> *******************
>
> 1. Does the hardboiled fiction genre have some common
> meaning/message? If yes, what is it?
>
> 2. Does the noir fiction genre have some common
> meaning/message? If yes, what is it?
>
> 3. What pre-Hammett/Daly literature led up to the
> hardboiled genre?
>
> 4. Do you identify the beginning of the noir fiction
> genre with a particular novel or story? If yes, what
> and why?
>
> 5. Do you identify the beginning of the hardboiled
> fiction genre with a particular novel or story? If
> yes, what and why?
>
> 6. What themes do you often find in the hardboiled
> genre? Does the commonality suggest some special
> significance? If yes, what?
>
> 7. What themes do you often find in noir fiction?
> Does the commonality suggest some special
> significance? If yes, what?
>
> 8. If you don't think Michael Connelly is writing
> the best damned hardboiled today, how long of a pry
> bar would it take to get your head out of your ass?
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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