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Absolutely. I go on various kicks where I read only humor and then only urban fantasy and so on. But I think noir has gotten darker and not just in a murderous way. So much of it that ran me off was the whole "human condition" darkness--your ordinary, sad life where people were not lifting themselves up -- or would deliberately walk away from a possible good thing and choose the booze or drugs or theft over possible redemption. There's noir and then there's wallowing...
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