Re: RARA-AVIS: Tales of revenge

From: Tapani Bagge ( tapani.bagge@armas.fi)
Date: 17 Oct 2007


361 by Westlake. Or any Parker, where he is betrayed. Starting from The Hunter.

Tapani Bagge

jacquesdebierue kirjoitti 17.10.2007 kello 23.19:

> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "rictusaporia" <rictusaporia@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I prefer the tigers & dogs to those who are presumptuous
> > enough to think that the simplistic machinic application of brutal
> > force to any symptomatic human expression of social ills is a thing
> > that can be morally justified (or called "human").
>
> OK, so what are the greatest hardboiled/noir tales of revenge ever
> written? Joe Gores wrote two very fine ones, _A Time for Predators_
> and _Dead Man_. Cape Fear is another one. There have got to be many
> more. Elmore Leonard?
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
>
>

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