From what I remember, Chandler's social commentary tends to
be tied more to concrete than to ideal things, unlike the
Connelly example below (although an edge of social commentary
obviously informs both).
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In a message dated 12/8/07 2:09:48 PM, jacquesdebierue@
yahoo.com writes:
>
> John, I find nothing in common between Connelly and
Chandler... To me,
> Connelly is descended from the great journalistic
writers, not from
> any fiction writer that I can recognize. He writes
like a damn fine
> reporter. We're lucky he turned to
fiction!
>
in LOST LIGHT, Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD and is
working as a
private investigator. unlike most Bosch procedurals, which
are written in the
3rd person, Lost Light is written in the first:
"... Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only
hold its
mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and
the intrigue is gone,
replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was a place of
takers and users,
of broken sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in the
desert, water it
with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what
happens. The
desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human
tumbleweeds drift
across its streets, predators hide in the rocks... "
tangentially, I recall that Terrill Lankford has credited
Altman's The Long
Goodbye with inspiring Connelly to write detective stories
set in L.A.
Terrill should know, he's the author's friend and business
associate
I find it easy to extrapolate that if the man who wrote the
above paragraph
was inspired by Altman's film, then the essence of Chandler
permeates that work
at its very core
John Lau
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