jlhoots Posted April 14 Report Share Posted April 14 Michael Connolly: Desert Star Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 I just finished up A Hero of Our Time. Interestingly, there is a contemporary novel by Naben Ruthnum by the same name! I'll get to it fairly soon, but it isn't the very next thing on my list. I'm currently halfway through The Decameron. This is in preparation for Shteyngart's Our Country Friends, which has a similar set up (retreat from the city during a pandemic) but not quite so many bawdy tales. 😜 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 On 4/13/2024 at 8:41 AM, Brad said: To those who are not all that familiar with how enslaved people were treated this will be an eye opener. Same for those who are not all that familiar with how enslaving people think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GA Russell Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 On 4/6/2024 at 9:57 PM, GA Russell said: Everyone is entirely credible. But these guys are not as interesting people as the players from The Glory of Their Times. Maybe the guys from a hundred years ago were country. Two-Time World Series-Winning Dodgers Pitcher Dead At 97 (msn.com) Carl Erskine has died. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 (edited) This is a novel, apparently serialized in Black Mask Magazine in 1939. It reads like it was dictated rather than worked on, but it's pretty good. Edited April 21 by GA Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 (edited) On 3/26/2024 at 1:00 AM, GA Russell said: Raymond Chandler was a friend of Erle Stanley Gardner's. A year ago, I read a collection of Chandler's correspondence. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008TSROHM/ In one letter, he said that he had just finished a story by some new guy named A.A. Fair. He said that he enjoyed the book, but that Fair's writing was a complete ripoff of Gardner's style and plot devices! I love all the A.A. Fair novels. And Chandler too. Chandler was so envious of how Gardner could create plot after plot with ease; Gardner was in awe of the prose Chandler could write. Now reading Reading my Uncle Jack's ex-wife Bonnie's book (she'll always be my Aunt Bonnie.) This is very weird, it's sort of like a Philip K. Dick book or some such. It's hard to believe it all happened or was real. But. . . the writing is good. Edited April 21 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JSngry Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 4 hours ago, jazzbo said: I love all the A.A. Fair novels. And Chandler too. Chandler was so envious of how Gardner could create plot after plot with ease; Gardner was in awe of the prose Chandler could write. Now reading Reading my Uncle Jack's ex-wife Bonnie's book (she'll always be my Aunt Bonnie.) This is very weird, it's sort of like a Philip K. Dick book or some such. It's hard to believe it all happened or was real. But. . . the writing is good. Was she related to Molly Ivins? They kinda look alike? Kinda? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 3 hours ago, JSngry said: Was she related to Molly Ivins? They kinda look alike? Kinda? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ghost of miles Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 Wish I’d been able to see the actual exhibition, but the catalogue’s the next-best thing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 9 hours ago, ghost of miles said: Wish I’d been able to see the actual exhibition, but the catalogue’s the next-best thing: Interesting .... thnx for the hint 👌 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dub Modal Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Just finished Tom O'Neill's 2019 book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Good book and rec'd if the topic is of interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jlhoots Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Michael Connolly: The Brass Verdict (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GA Russell Posted May 10 Report Share Posted May 10 Pretty bad. Amateurish writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 11 Author Report Share Posted May 11 (edited) A recent trip to New York City’s Tenement Museum inspired me to finally get around to reading Mike Gold’s classic novel of Lower East Side life in the early 20th century (Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep, published four years after Gold’s work, is an outstanding book covering roughly the same area and period): Edited May 11 by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 On 5/8/2024 at 11:05 AM, Dub Modal said: Just finished Tom O'Neill's 2019 book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Good book and rec'd if the topic is of interest. Going to read this one first and then dive right into that one. Thanks for the tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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