Juri:
I agree about the disappointment CCDP turned out to
be. I had to force myself to keep reading it since I
spent the money for it.I'm glad to see that it wasn't
just me.
Bob
--- Juri Nummelin <juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> The strongest novel I read during the last year was
> Richard Matheson's I AM
> LEGEND from 1954 that was translated in Finnish for
> the first time. It's
> hardboiled and it's noir and I really think everyone
> on this list should
> read it, even though it's also science fiction and
> horror. Forget the films.
>
> Other noirish and hardboiledish novels I enjoyed
> during 2007:
>
> Allan Guthrie: HARD MAN
> Sean Chercover: BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD
> Kevin Wignall: WHO IS CONRAD HIRST? (without
> Matheson, this would be the
> book of the year), also Kevin's AMONG THE DEAD
> Brian Garfield: KOLCHAK'S GOLD; HOPSCOTCH
> Reed Farrel Coleman: THE JAMES DEANS
> a collection of Leigh Brackett's Mars stories
> Stephen Greenleaf: GRAVE ERROR
> H.A. DeRosso: .44 (perhaps the noirest Western novel
> ever written, very much
> like David Goodis)
>
> I also might add that Marquis de Sade's JUSTINE is
> just as chilling as any
> noir novel and qualifies as a crime novel. Not
> hardboiled in the sense of
> "colloquial", though.
>
> One of the most important things on the publishing
> front in Finnish was that
> Stephen Crane's Western short stories were
> translated for the first time in
> a nice collection. Some might detect pre-noir tones
> in them.
>
> The major disappointment of the year was Paul
> Malmont's hyped THE CHINATOWN
> CLOUD DEATH PERIL.
>
> Juri
>
>
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