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Re: RARA-AVIS: Review: The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, M. Taboada wrote, about _The Mammoth Book of Pulp
Fiction_:
: A thorough, systematic description of the riches contained in this
: self-titled "mammoth" book is out of the question in a brief review;
: I will therefore limit myself to offering a brief commentary on some
: stories that caught my attention - be warned, however, that there
: really isn't a weak story in the lot, and that the book is hard to
: put down once opened!
Thanks for this review, Mario. I was in my local bookstore today, and
they had this in, so I bought it ($14.95 Canadian). It looks like a
wonderful collection - I read Willeford's story, about the shoplifter,
and it's a little gem. My only quibble is that they call it pulp
fiction, and restrict it to hardboiled-type stories. People seem to
forget the sci-fi pulps, the westerns, the nurse stories, the naughty
sex ones, and all the others. Regardless, this is a great book, and
it really is mammoth.
Bill
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