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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Burton Smith
<kvnsmith@...> wrote:
>
>
> Harry wrote:
>
> > I also came across SONS OF SAM SPADE: THE
PRIVATE EYE NOVEL IN
THE 70s
> > by David Geherin. Anyone familiar with this
study?
>
>
> Interesting, but outdated. Of the three authors
Geherin focused on -
-
> Robert B. Parker, Roger L. Simon, Andrew Bergman --
only Parker's
> continued to thrive and played a major role in the
genre, although
> both Simon ad Bergman continue to kick into the pot
now and then,
and
> have done some excellent and noteworthy
work.
>
> This might have been one of the first times anyone
took a deeper,
more
> serious look at Parker's work, and its impact on the
genre. It
would
> be interesting to see Geherin do an update,
considering all that's
> happened to the P.I. genre, post-Spenser.
>
> And let's face it, there may be better or more
popular authors out
> there, but nobody has influenced the P.I. genre --
for better or
worse
> -- more in the last few decades -- for better or
worse -- than
Parker.
>
>
I read some Simon novels after Simon's THE BIG FIX, but I
stopped seeing his books. I thought BERGMAN's HOLLYWOOD AND
LEVINE very entertaining , but I thought its sequel, THE BIG
KISSOFF OF only soso. I recently bought the third in the
series, TENDER IS LEVINE, and am in the middle of it. So far,
it feels like a Kaminsky Toby Peters book without the
annoying regular characters. Of course. Bergman found greater
success as a screenwriter of such films as Blazing Sadles and
a director.
We've discussed Parker in the past so anyone interessted in
my and others' opinion of the Spenser series could find it. I
think most felt the books seriously declined by about the
sixth in the series. Some kept reading them. I didn't.
Mark
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