tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post3970729198629197329..comments2024-01-17T22:00:41.839-08:00Comments on Full Throttle and F**k It: Where Y'at?Steve Malleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-69451769887918822007-02-06T12:56:00.000-08:002007-02-06T12:56:00.000-08:00I really should give myself more than fifteen or s...I really should give myself more than fifteen or so minutes to write these blogs. I sort of meant to say that the Busted Flush and the South Florida around it were very powerful settings, but then Travis would go on vacation or something.<br /><br />The underground city Red Nails, or that fort deep in the Pictish wilderness were both awesome, lingering locales. Both were quite isolated, dark, womb- or coffin-like. Psychological spaces more than physical, and both made the hair stand up on my arms! Otherwise, it's like there's a lot of 'tavern' or 'desert' or 'palace' in REH's work.<br /><br />Or maybe my perceptions have been shaded by the knockoffs, and by L Sprague DeCamp's comment that it was easy to 'Conan-ize' REH's gangster stories and westerns. The heroes, villains and girls were apparently more or less the same, just change the guns to swords or bows and Bob's your uncle.<br /><br />I'm the same way with my little cache of unread McDonalds. I picked up a stack from a trip to the States a couple years ago and dole them out sparingly.<br /><br />Deerhaven, Arkansas: I bet the place hangs in your mind and begs to be written about! Look forward to reading some...Steve Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-82010654640022779742007-02-05T08:35:00.000-08:002007-02-05T08:35:00.000-08:00I'm a big fan of MacDonald's too. In fact, I stil...I'm a big fan of MacDonald's too. In fact, I still have a few of his books I haven't read and I dole them out to myself as rewards. Some of the McGee stuff seems to have more setting. The Busted Flush comes alive for me, for example. But I agree that many of his settings are fairly generic. Howard's "taverns" are certainly generic, but I don't know if I'd agree with you about some of his places, like the underground city in Red Nails. Interesting debate, however. <br /><br />I've been using a town called "Deerhaven, Arkansas" for many of my stories. It's set in the Ozark Mountain around where I grew up and is losely based on my hometown.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com