Catching up...

[Otto]

Uff, you should read them all, "The Big Sleep", "The Little Sister",
"The High Window", "The Long Good-Bye", "Farewell, My Lovely",
"Playback", "The Smell of Fear".

Wasn't it Paul who said something like: "Chandler's world is stranger than SF!"

I agree.

Otto

2006/8/27, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>:
> 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.  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'.
>