http://www.griph.net/2009/11/there-goes-another-novel/ Voyages of a Culture Cosmonaut Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:53:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.griph.net/2009/11/there-goes-another-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-801 Kane Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:59:46 +0000 http://www.griph.net/?p=2461#comment-801 I'm reading the collected stories of Raymond Chandler right now. Having mostly known noir pulp through third-hand parodies of third-rate writers, I'm surprised how good it is, and how few details you'd have to change to make the stories work and ring true in modern Los Angeles. One of the more amusing quirks, though, is that characters only ever seem to get more than three features of appearance described if he's insinuating they're gay. Which is done anywhere from fairly clever and subtly to wince-worthy double entendres and wordplay, but never stated flat out. I’m reading the collected stories of Raymond Chandler right now. Having mostly known noir pulp through third-hand parodies of third-rate writers, I’m surprised how good it is, and how few details you’d have to change to make the stories work and ring true in modern Los Angeles. One of the more amusing quirks, though, is that characters only ever seem to get more than three features of appearance described if he’s insinuating they’re gay. Which is done anywhere from fairly clever and subtly to wince-worthy double entendres and wordplay, but never stated flat out.

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