tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857832752297480627.post7293684895034644570..comments2023-05-07T03:44:16.072-07:00Comments on Howdunit?: A new awareness?Stefanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000900457511641277noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857832752297480627.post-67103691824681838122015-06-02T15:00:33.248-07:002015-06-02T15:00:33.248-07:00I'm glad to hear that, thank you :)I'm glad to hear that, thank you :)Stefanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05000900457511641277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857832752297480627.post-25344863127124607362015-06-02T14:15:26.407-07:002015-06-02T14:15:26.407-07:00Very interesting analysis Stefano. I agree with a ...Very interesting analysis Stefano. I agree with a lot of what you say. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857832752297480627.post-39410308174516967982015-05-31T13:00:54.146-07:002015-05-31T13:00:54.146-07:00Thank you for coming by, Curtis, it's a pleasu...Thank you for coming by, Curtis, it's a pleasure.<br />You wrote somewhere that for every person who ever bought an Hard Boiled novel (Chandler or Spillane, I don't remember), there have been more who bought an Agatha Christie. This was the Chandler's problem, mostly after WW2. I think that Chandler didn’t have a real problem with classical mystery, he had a problem with those who sold more books than him. Or we should believe that one who loves Freeman or Crofts hates Carr and Christie. I can’t believe it, I’m sorry.<br />I really hope that things will change after Martin's book.Stefanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05000900457511641277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857832752297480627.post-2079969684556084552015-05-31T12:30:12.773-07:002015-05-31T12:30:12.773-07:00I'm glad you mentioned the T. S. Eliot and Cha...I'm glad you mentioned the T. S. Eliot and Chandler essays too. I think they make important points and Martin mentioned Eliot about a dozen times in his book, I believe, so it got through there, anyway. I'd just be pleased if some people from academic backgrounds, supplementing you of course, ever acknowledged it. <br /><br />It goes so against the grain of current opinion, however. All we ever hear, usually, is how Eliot loved The Moonstone, which fits in with the view that "literary" crime fiction is good, puzzle-oriented detective fiction bad. Yet Eliot liked both! And people who keep saying Chandler hated British crime fiction--well, it's just not true. He liked Josephine Tey and Michael Innes as well.<br /><br />Now that Martin's book is out to much sales the question is whether more people will be encouraged to engage with these new views, rather than just keep throwing old studies in our faces.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.com