Catching up...

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Other way 'round.  Chandler may be mannered (though I
> will admit, I've only read The Big Sleep, and know the
> films better than the novel), but Hammett's more of a
> stylist.


This is true but I thought thist was  part of Chandler's charm.  
Writes with no apparent attempt at felicitous language, almost like  
he was composing a police report.


> Meanwhile, my favorite Stones records (and
> the only ones I've bothered with on vinyl since I
> reconverted; meanwhile, you can't get much more
> mannnered than middle-class Mick) are Some Girls,
> "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the
> Shadow?,"  "Dandelion" and "2000 Light Years from
> Home" ...
>
> --- Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally I've always been puzzled why so many
>> people seem to regard Hammett as superior. I assume
>> it's the same instinct that leads some to
>> believe that the Beatles were overrated and teh
>> Stones were far superior, grittier, and somehow
>> more 'authentic' or 'street'.
>
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