We're in the midst of several threads, chewing at Willeford
and each other
a bit. Tends to happen during the dog days of summer.
>I've been reading hard boiled detective and crime
stuff for about the last
>two years, since I picked Ellroy's "Black Dahlia" up
off the recommended
>table at Cody's in Berkeley. I've been more and more
impressed with his
>fiction (Haven't picked up Hollywood Nocturnes yet..
takes a lot to make me
>buy hardcover fiction), although I wasn't turned on
terribly by "My Dark
>Places".
Check the archives at the website for a lively discussion of
Dahlia that
occurred earlier this Spring , and then a discussion of some
of the stories
in Hollywood Nocturnes (April-May) which, by the way, is in
paper. There
are a bunch of Ellroy fans here. By the way, it's kind of fun
to
match-read Ellroy's vision of LA in the 50s with Walter
Mosley's Easy
Rawlins' series.
>
>Right now I'm reading "A Coffin for Dimitrios" by Eric
Ambler. Nice spy
>novel about 1930's in central Europe.
Just read several of his last year. You've read the best one,
I think.
Epitaph for a Spy is also good. The espionage
"entertainments" of Graham
Greene, from & about the same era, are good too, though
more restricted to
England: This Gun For Hire, Ministry of Fear. Some have
suggested Brighton
Rock for the group-reading list.
>
>-rj
>
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