Etienne Borgers wrote:
> As for the Parker of today, just scrap good
and
> promizing, and we are left only with :
successful.
> So I suggest that Parker Part II does not
belong
> anymore to the kind of lit we discuss here, as
doesn't
> any other best-seller specialist.
> Otherwise, it would not be fair to very
successful
> ones such as: Grisham, Crighton, Ludlum et
al.
Do any of those write hard-boiled or noir fiction?
And on what grounds do we exclude Parker, then? He's too
successful? He's not good enough? If either or both of those
are the case, then would someone send me a list of
hard-boiled and noir authors who we're nonetheless not
allowed to discuss?
jess
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