Whew! I'm glad I received that book as a gift and didn't have
to shell out my own money (based on your comments).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Crider" <
bcrider@houston.rr.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
4:24 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Mammoth Book of Pulp
Action
> I picked this one up the other day, and I was
looking forward to reading
it.
> However, it's been a big disappointment so far. The
first story, which
> features Erle Stanley Gardner's Patent Leather Kid
is OK (you can't go
wrong
> with a masked Zorro type), and Steve Fisher's
"Goodbye, Hannah" is also
> pretty good (but I'd read it not long ago in another
anthology). Raoul
> Whitfield's story comes from "Breezy Stories," which
was a pulp, but
there's
> no action here. And it's not a very good story. Ed
McBain's story isn't
> even from a pulp. It's from Playboy, and there's no
action at all. It's
a
> two-character story, quite long, and it's all
conversation. I'm beginning
> to feel as if I was hornswoggled. The next story is
Bruno Fischer's
"Smile,
> Corpse, Smile," which has a dandy title. Too bad the
story doesn't quite
> live up to it. Maybe things will pick up as I get
farther into the book.
>
> And a happy hardboiled Thanksgiving to one and
all.
>
> Bill Crider
>
>
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