>>25238919
no clue who this is, but he looks like Faulkner

Is it possible for the (((dissident right))) (Jewish Bugman Yarvin approved) to go 15 seconds without being fragile retards screeching online

>>25238920
op's statement is interchangeable with faulkner

>>25238919
He wasn't very good anyways. Read Chandler.

>>25238925
Trannies accusing other people of complaining and screeching will never not be funny

>>25238938
chuds and their very strange obsession with female cock. many such cases

>>25238920
my thought exactly (more or less)

>>25238920
Faulkner in a slightly different timeline where he didn't drink as much.

>>25238919
He was a weird bloke for sure. The funny thing is his politics don’t spoil his books at all, or even intrude into them in the way leftists' politics usually do. Suppose you were to read his novels without knowing anything of the man. If you then discovered he was in fact a hard-core right-winger, it wouldn't be really incongruous.

There is, I think, a better reason than his politics not to like his books. Here's a comment on the matter in a Raymond Chandler letter:


I think the man has been both overrated and underrated. Your friend Dale Warren recently read the Falcon, for the first time too, and saw little in it. But I have read so much of this kind of writing that the gulf between Hammett and the merely tough boys seems to me vast. Old Joe Shaw may have put his finger on the trouble when he said Hammett never really cared for any of his characters.

[Joe Shaw was the editor of Black Mask magazine, which first published Hammett's short stories.]


That seems right to me. DH didn't make the sort of emotional investment in his characters that other writers, even if their authorial presence is similarly invisible, seem to make. It's a subtle, cumulative thing. You can't quote any one passage where it jumps out at you. But I think this is why many people don't really warm to him.

>>25239089
that was prob just the drip of the day like if faulker and hammett lived now they both be rockin the broccoli

>>25239780
He hated his writing and always came to regard it as slop in retrospect. He disliked his characters because they were always drawn from himself, he was a former Pinkerton. Imagine being a former combat Marine and then growing to hate the American military and sympathize with their enemies but being a writer you write about Marines. That'a actually what happened to the guy who wrote the book full metal jacket was based on and its sequel, he regarded the Viet Cong as the good guys

James Ellroy believes Hammett was the greatest crime writer of the genre but he hates Chandler. Chandler himself really liked Hammett and saw him as the dad of it all

>>25239788
Yeah, to some extent. When he was with Pinkerton's he worked as a strike-breaker during the mining disputes and so on, didn't he? But I don't know about drawing all his characters from himself. He said that Sam Spade, for instance, was a composite of what all the private detectives he knew sort of imagined themselves to be or wanted to be or tried to be or pretended to be.

The amusing thing about the Continental Op. is that he is short and tubby, which is of course exactly the opposite of Hammett himself. Maybe that was a case of protesting too much. Nick in The Thin Man is the most obvious self-insert as far as circumstances goes (ex-detective, married, drinks all the time), but I get the impression that Ned Beaumont is the one closest to Hammett himself.

>>25239795
I said he drew them from himself, not used himself as the model.

Pinkertons were privatized feds and probably the most boring people alive. Fleming said he used the name James Bond because he thought it sounded loke the most boring name he ever heard which was perfect for intelligence.

I have been interrogated by FBI agents before and they just accept whatever their job ideology is uncritically. They normies cranked up to over 9000. They are literally just like the higher IQ version of mall cops and security guards. I don't buy Hammett's claim that Spade is how average detectives see themselves. Mike Hammer is how they see themselves if they romanticize at all. I think Sam Spade was *his* romantic fantasy back when he was a detective, reflecting trying to preserve some sort of private code in the sea of his own mounting cynicism. Security guards, feds and Pinkertons are not cynics, they uncritically believe in what they do, they see the selves as superheroes. Sam Spade doesn't have any such illusions.

>>25239783
I don't know why you think this is funny or clever

>>25238926
Kek. He was extremely conflicted. He was a very conflicted man. Very much so.

OP is a fag, but im only bumping his thread because Hammett is great and deserves recognition.