Love the Prey series... never really thought of it as
hard-boiled
(probably because it's more cop-oriented than PI-oriented),
but
they don't come much more hard-boiled than this guy....
Anyone have a canonical list of published titles? My
collection
of John Sandford novels was amassed over the years from
airport
book racks, while waiting for the next @#$ #@$ NorthWest
airlines
flight to be late.
Is it just me, or is there a higher concentration of
hard-boiled
fiction/true-crime/
serial killer/medical thriller novels in airport book racks
than anywhere
else in the known universe? There has to be some kind of
connection.....
Whenever I travel to some foreign city (Detroit) and I'm
sitting in a
dingy, over-priced unfriendly hotel room, I slip under the
covers and burn
through a hard-boiled novel... it must be environmental
conditioning or
something.
And now, since you've been such good listeners and so
patient, I'm going to
read you an excerpt from Chapter 78 of my new hard-boiled
novella:
CHAPTER 78
I slammed the keyboard down underneath the server. Something
in this
network lab stunk, and I had a good idea I knew what. Ripping
open the
metal casing I found it. The scum. Some lousy stinking
Communist
Extended IDE controller cable was loose. I jammed the roscoe
in the button,
and yelled at the motherboard, "Close your yap, bo, or I
insert metal into
your 16-bit controller card, without applying the anti-static
strap".
I'll post the rest of my novella later if enough people are
interested :-).
Cheers,
Matthew "I call my keyboard..... Betsy" Harding
William Denton <buff @ vex.net>
07/24/98 10:27 PM
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, PhantomPhan wrote:
: Could someone let me know how often a book is selected for
reading
: and discussion and when the next novel is due?
It's a book a month, and a list goes out every Sunday night.
I try to
make sure books are planned out for the next month or two.
There's a
backlog of suggestions and the choices get picked from
there.
We try to stick to titles in print.
: I'm currently reading one of John Sandford's "Prey" series
with
: detective Lucas Davenport. I'm enjoying this series so far.
Is
: this type of novel appropriate for rara-avis, or are we
limited to
: the classics, ala Hammett and Chandler, et. al.?
We do spend a lot of time on the classics, but lots of
subscribers
have favourite contemporary hardboiled writers. I don't know
anything
about those Prey books, but perhaps you could say what's
hardboiled
about them?
Welcome to the list!
Bill
--
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lector.
"Let's keep the party polite."
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