Dashiell Hammett or Mickey Spillane?

[Gold Metal Flake]

Poll question: Dashiell Hammett or Mickey Spillane?

[Deja Q]

1. Michael J Straczynski

:evilgrin:

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. Gee, I vote in your polls.

:cry:

[Joe Fields]

3. Hammett, dammit!!!

[RetroLounge]

4. Hello? Raymond Chandler?

:shrug:

RL

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Dude, he plays the winner.

If, that is, more people are interested.

[RetroLounge]

9. Got it...

:hi:

RL

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Dashiell Hammett is old school hardboiled

Scenes on San Francisco's Bush Street at night! Need I say more? :shrug:

[Zorro]

7. Mickey for me

Mike Hammer is the epitome of the hard-boiled PI.

Hammett is a boring author.

[wildhorses]

8. dash it all -- i like dashiell

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

10. Dashiell

Mickey seems a parody of himself...

RL

[mitchum]

11. Of course, Hammett (he's the Cervantes of the hardboiled novel), but...

Spillane is much better than his detractors claim

[davsand]

12. I always loved the way Spillane pulled names outta nowhere.

He was always coming up with this name outta no-place and it was always some guy he knew from someplace. Just makes me crack up to this day.

I had a writing exercise one time that was to re-tell the Three Bears using somebody's style. I used Spillane and had a great time with it. "Under her trenchcoat she was bear--ALL bear. Said her name was Rondine, and she needed my help..."



Laura