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Post by miles on Mar 4, 2017 19:54:01 GMT
Just got a four-novel collection of Ross McDonald, featuring his private eye Lew Archer. I like the Archer novels, but I much prefer either Hammett or Chandler. I know he is not really in the same genre as the authors you mention, but do you have an opinion on Jim Thompson's writing?
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Post by Introvertigroo on Mar 4, 2017 21:35:24 GMT
I know Thompson's name, but I don't think I've ever read any of his works, so I'm afraid I don't have an opinion to offer.
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Post by miles on Mar 5, 2017 18:34:15 GMT
I loved the film version of "The Grifters." I have a few of his books in the to be read pile.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Apr 12, 2017 5:36:13 GMT
I've been reading volume four in Ken Sharp's series "Play On: Power Pop Heroes." I particularly liked the interviews with Matthew Sweet and Teenage Fanclub.
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Post by Introvertigroo on May 5, 2017 3:08:33 GMT
Rereading Chuck Palahniuk's "Haunted." Not recommended for people who aren't dark and twisted to the point of necessitating involuntary incarceration in a mental hospital. I think the book is great.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jan 21, 2018 4:51:02 GMT
I have been reading my Raymond Chandler collection for at least the fifth time. I am a creature of habit, kind of like a nun.
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Post by donavan on Jan 21, 2018 8:26:07 GMT
Lettuce pray.
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Post by miles on Jan 21, 2018 18:33:09 GMT
On a short story binge. Reading the complete stories of Ted Sturgeon ( had started a couple years ago but stropped when the next chronological volume was too expensive. Just got a reasonable priced copy and have the next 4 volumes ready to go now.) I met him a few times in the 70s and 80s. His motto was "Ask the next question."
Also reading the complete stories of Clark Ashton Smith, dark fantasy similar to Lovecraft, but more colorful and poetic.
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Post by donavan on May 7, 2018 16:24:11 GMT
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith by Mark E. Smith.
Years old and I've never read it but my son bought it for me when Mark died. I'm gonna read it on holiday in a few weeks. Thanks son. x
Kids can we play it a bit harder on the changes - MES.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 31, 2018 2:28:21 GMT
On a horror novel kick, having reread Peter Straub's Ghost Story and currently rereading Stephen King's It.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 24, 2018 4:09:36 GMT
Rereading my James Ellroy novels. Just read The Black Dahlia, currently working on The Big Nowhere.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Sept 3, 2018 1:12:38 GMT
Up to L.A. Confidential, book three in James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet.
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Post by miles on Sept 3, 2018 19:16:42 GMT
Up to L.A. Confidential, book three in James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet. I am a hopeless fan of Ellroy's. Love the quartet, I also read his secret history trilogy: Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. And his autobiography and a couple collections of shorter pieces. Perfidia is waiting, supposedly a prequel to events in the quartet. Crime and horror blend well in his work. Reading the graphic novel Sunshine and Roses, newest collection of Stray Bullets stories from David Lapham.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Sept 3, 2018 21:22:23 GMT
I wasn't a big fan of Perfidia. It seems like Ellroy is trying too hard to combine all of his novels into one story, where apparently ever major event in Los Angeles between 1940 and 1960 all involved the same handful of characters.
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Post by miles on Sept 4, 2018 22:11:37 GMT
I wasn't a big fan of Perfidia. It seems like Ellroy is trying too hard to combine all of his novels into one story, where apparently ever major event in Los Angeles between 1940 and 1960 all involved the same handful of characters. That is helpful, I won't expect too much. There is a similar secret conspiracy emphasis in the history trilogy or maybe they should be called the assassination(s) trilogy. Yes, he does make selected figures way larger than life.
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