tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post7014947020567874942..comments2024-03-14T18:09:09.667-05:00Comments on Do Some Damage: More on Violence in Crime FictionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-6606564565065394962011-07-30T10:02:35.943-05:002011-07-30T10:02:35.943-05:00Interesting topic. Some lines just linger in the ...Interesting topic. Some lines just linger in the mind, long after the rest of the story fades from memory. Hammett wrote somewhere (I think in Red Harvest): "I hit him with the door, repeatedly." That's all you need, but you need every word of it, and the next time some witling tells you adverbs are always a bad idea, well, I suggest you hit him with the door. More than once.Lawrence Blockhttp://lawrenceblock.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-67190573772718627322011-05-25T08:32:54.212-05:002011-05-25T08:32:54.212-05:00That's one of the things that has impressed me...That's one of the things that has impressed me about The Killing on AMC. It's all about the aftermath. The camera lingers when it would usually cut away from the pain of the survivors of murder, which is revealed as the hideous waste that it is.Al Tucherhttp://alberttucher.writersresidence.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-83567388805483214652011-05-24T18:41:31.390-05:002011-05-24T18:41:31.390-05:00I started reading Richard Price's SAMARITAN ye...I started reading Richard Price's SAMARITAN yesterday. An excellent example of what you're talking about here. Done well, the effect of the violence on the story and the reader may be inversely proportional to the amount of time spent describing it.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.com