Elmore Leonard? Get Real!

[malignd at aol.com]

I like Hammett and always found Chandler to be like reading something written by Walter Mitty.  Do you think Chandler ever got laid?  Anyway, to each his own

I've encountered this line of thinking before - thatHammett is better than Chandler. Never could understand it.




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From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
To: jstremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>; igrlivingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 9:19 am
Subject: RE: Elmore Leonard? Get Real!



That piece about Leonard is great, thanks John. He's better than
Chandler, leaner, not as sentimental. Perhaps not better than Hammett.
(Leonard himself said, Willeford wrote the best crime novels.)Yeah, I've 
ecnountered this line of thinking before - that Hammett is better than Chandler. 
Never could understand it.


 		 	   		  

 
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