JIM DOHERTY wrote:
> It's NOT a collection of stories from the old
pulps.
> It IS a very good history, and to some
degree
> critique, of the detective characters who
flourished
> in the pulp magazine.
>
> Goulart is also the editor of a very good anthology
of
> pulp (in the original sense) mysteries called
THE
> HARD-BOILED DICKS.
******************** I'm looking forward to it. Didn't mean
to imply that I thought it was stories. I knew it was a
commentary. I don't have THE HARDBOILED DICKS. I've got a
couple others though that just about include all those
stories, or at least that's what I recall being the case. Got
THE BLACK MASK BOYS and THE HARDBOILED DETECTIVES (think that
second title is right).
As a footnote, I came back to THE PARADISE EATERS by Saul and
it was pretty good. It struck me as a little uneven, or at
least that was the impression it made on me. There were parts
that really struck home and others that seemed out of focus.
Although tagged a thriller, it was definitely hardboiled,
too. It's about a bitter expatriate journalist struggling to
keep it together in Thailand. Some strong parallels to
Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES.
miker
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