>
> To mention just a few, Willeford, Gores, Westlake,
Leonard and
> Connelly do, I think. Though pure writing is never
pure... it needs
> to match what's being told, especially in the genres
which are of
> interest to us. I do love how Block moves a story
along, unobtrusively
> but always with the right accentuation. But if Block
wanted to write
> Chester Himes's or K.C. Constantine's stories, he
would have to adapt
> his singing style to the music, so to speak. Another
phenomenal
> stylist is Fredric Brown, not mentioned often enough
of late.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
Mr T: your thoughts on Rex Stout? To me, the way he blended
hardboiled with classic English Mystery in his Nero Wolfe
books was masterful, and stylistically pitch perfect.
Another point about Block--I suspect that his hitman stories
are a riff on the Continental Op. Btw. I can't argue too much
about either Leonard and Willeford--their writing is direct,
highly readable, but in my opinion doesn't have that smooth,
almost magical flow that Block's writing has, but then again,
few writers do.
--Dave Zeltserman
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