Some other other opinions on mystery, detective novels

[John Carvill]

Yeah, but there were a *lot* of strong supporters of Hammett here.
Where'd they go?!

I enjoyed The Maltese Falcon, but I'd seen the film - and Bogart -
before I read it, so.... I loved 'Red Harvest' too, but as you say
Chandler is richer. basically, I think Chandler is *much* more
literary.

I *still* haven't got round to MacDonald, though I have now located my
copy of 'The Blue Hammer'. Oh for more reading time...

2009/8/18 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> turns out it is in Pynchon Notes 2:6 1980, Marcus Smith    "V and Maltese Falcon"
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> Chandler is simply richer, yes?...Hammett was JUST more or less first. No small achievement.
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> I heard Macdonald's voice coming thru in Lew in AtD....of course, he got a lot of his voice from Chandler.
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> --- On Tue, 8/18/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Where, yo?
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>> 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.
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