Lots of authors have trafficked in "low rent" fiction in order to make ends meet. Barnes had written detective fiction but with a fantastic bent so this wasn't a terrible stretch. I'd put Casanegra in the realm of work from Valerie Wilson-Wesley, Gary Phillips and Gary Hardwick. Is it Walter Mosley or George Pelecanos? Nope but it's an enjoyable mystery that is set in and around Hollywood.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Casanegra and the sequel allowed Barnes the latitude to write the third in the Lion's Blood series so all is forgiven. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It wasn't well written. Somehow Barnes and Due trafficing in low > rent fiction is perceived as laudable. Frank Lucas might have been > more noble than Nicky Barnes...but they were both still selling crack. > > ~(no)rave! > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "B. Smith" <daikaiju66@> > wrote: > > > > I didn't think it was badly written. It wasn't the usual stuff from > > them but it wasn't bad. There might have been some hiccups but it > was > > the first time they wrote together and they were hammering out the > > rough spots. I imagine the second book will be a bit more polished. > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Ah, hecky naw, man! Sex doesn't bother me (the only thing I want > in > > > this life is my life and more sex). Bad writing does. > > > > > > ~rave! > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "B. Smith" <daikaiju66@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I've read it and I have to ask what bothered you about the > book? > > Just > > > > the selling out in general or the sexcapades? > > > > > > > > Knowing Steven Barnes views on black men not getting to have > sex > > in > > > > movies, I expected that there would be even more sex in the > book. > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Doesn't make YOU want to punch them out. Have you read that > > trash? > > > > > > > > > > ~(no)rave! > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hayden" > > > > > <belsidus2000@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > (Now Rave. > > > > > > > > > > > > You know that he is denouncing them for the WAY they took > the > > > > money > > > > > and > > > > > > ran, not for the mere taking and running. > > > > > > > > > > > > At least they way he, Due and Blair do it don't make you > want > > to > > > > > punch > > > > > > them out.) > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" > > <ravenadal@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am somewhat amused by Steven Barnes' position. On one > > hand he > > > > > > > denounces Will Smith, Denzel Washington and Sam L. > Jackson > > > > > for "taking > > > > > > > the money and running" while on the other hand he and his > > > > lovely > > > > > wife, > > > > > > > Tananarive Due, make a naked money grab by collaborating > > with > > > > > Blair > > > > > > > Underwood on the blatantly commercial and barely literate > > > > Tennyson > > > > > > > Hardwick novels "Casanegra" and "In the Night of the > Heat." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~(no)rave! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hayden" > > > > > <belsidus2000@> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://darkush.blogspot.com/2008/07/hancock-2008.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
