Some other other opinions on mystery, detective novels

[Mark Kohut]

turns out it is in Pynchon Notes 2:6 1980, Marcus Smith    "V and Maltese Falcon" 

Chandler is simply richer, yes?...Hammett was JUST more or less first. No small achievement.

I heard Macdonald's voice coming thru in Lew in AtD....of course, he got a lot of his voice from Chandler. 


--- On Tue, 8/18/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Some other other opinions on mystery, detective novels
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 5:46 PM
> > 2009/8/18 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> > P.S. Seems there is a major article finding Hammett's
> influence all over V
> 
> Where, yo?
> 
> Around the time of ATD, we had a lot of posters on here
> arguing that
> Hammett was better than Chandler, a view I found very
> difficult to
> understand. haven't seen that view expressed here in the
> context of IV
> yet. Some of the details of the early Lew Basnight segments
> of ATD did
> recall Hammett, but it was always Chandler's voice I heard
> coming
> through.
>