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I was talking about Hammett and The Maltese Falcon. Amazing book. No internal dialogue at all. The Old Man and the Sea is a great book. I'm a big fan of his short stories (Hemingway). Exactly! Hamett had writing the modern murder mystery down, before it ever became the genre that it is! I liked his development of Nick and Nora Charles, too. One novel, 2,700 movies; that should say something! I agree with your assessment of Hemingway's short stories, of which I always considered Old Man And The Sea his longest, in novel form, LOL.

If you are talking Hammett his depth and breadth of characters for his time and genre was stupendous. I have to agreee with you! Hemingway, he is above my top ten cut, hovering somewhere with James Joyce. A Farewell to Arms was what I first read, but I really liked the simple power of Old Man and the Sea. I liked it so much I could never even watch the movie, with or without Spencer Tracy. I was always attracted to Ernest's dark side.

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