Off-topic Question

Bob Miller · 21 May 2008, 12:08 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: bob_bageera at hotmail.com (Bob Miller)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:08:09 -0500
Subject: (urth) Off-topic Question
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> > > On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:36:32 +1000 Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> > wrote:> >On May 17, 2008, at 10:12 PM, dcooperv wrote:> >>> >And, man, Chandler is underrated.> >> >That's some complex and delicious stuff there. Marlowe is *so* > >much > >smarter and better-educated than he lets on; one of my favorite > >not- > >quite-reliable narrators (there's the Wolfean connection). As far > > >as > >I'm concerned, _The Big Sleep_ is one of the great books of the > >20th > >Century. Chandler is--hey, another Wolfean connection--a genre > >writer > >who was *spectacularly* good, not just compared to the rest of the > > > > >genre, but period.> >> >Adam> > But don't downplay Hammett. On the weekends & Wednesdays I'm sure > he was a better writer than Chandler. Of all the stories written by > either of them, I think "The Glass Key" is the best, as well as the > most Wolfean. All showing, no telling, and the biggest puzzle is > trying to work out the protagonist's interior state, just from his > actions. 
 
My mind has always connected Dash Hammett and Roger Zelazny.  It took me awhile to figure out why, if I have.  Rich is the milieu?  They both make, on immediately finishing something of theirs, reading another writer difficult because of how awkward the language feels and they both had such an incredible ability to add detail to a scene without it getting in the way.  Anyone else the group can think of like that?
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