RARA-AVIS: Glad I found the list

Bill Hagen (billha@ionet.net)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:33:52 -0500 (CDT) Welcome in, Ranjan.

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.

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>-rj
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