Dashiell Hammett doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

[leahbobet]

cristalia (8:09:14 PM): Dashiell Hammett has solved my plotting problem.
cristalia (8:09:17 PM): There is nothing he can't do.
matociquala (8:09:55 PM): He's like Chuck Norris
stillsostrange (8:09:57 PM): Can he fix my scene?
cristalia (8:10:01 PM): I'm sure he could.
stillnotbored (8:10:14 PM): Can he finish my book while I work?
cristalia (8:10:33 PM): (Dashiell Hammett's tears cure cancer, but he's written in omni objective so you never know if he's crying on the inside.)


I read The Maltese Falcon this week. I am not over the ways in which that book is completely fucking awesome and I hope to never be over it. And yes, I picked up The Thin Man this afternoon.

This has been not a book report, but a *glee*.

Comments

[saladinahmed.livejournal.com]

Don't neglect the Continental Op stories, either -- love love love that stuff...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I think I've got 'em -- picked up a nice fat hardcover anthology of his shorter stuff too. Which is good, because I read The Thin Man in one sitting last night. >.>

[c0untmystars.livejournal.com]

Hammett is the shit.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

He is totally the shit. :D

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

I do like some Hammett.

Just getting into Raymond Chandler, as we received a a huge pretty set of his reprinted novels at the bookstore I work for. I love him similarly.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I should go visit him next and see if his tears also cure cancer.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

They do! But he's less Chuck Norris and more The Most Interesting Man in the World ("People hang on his every word! Even the prepositions!")