>01 Nov 1998 - _I Was Dora Suarez_ (Derek
Raymond)
>01 Dec 1998 - More non-American stuff (Dan Kavanagh?
Ted Lewis? Mark
Timlin? Others who aren't English!)
I've been away for a couple of weeks so how did we get to
pick
"Dora Suarez" of all books? I mean don't get me wrong - it is
an
incredible book and I don't know anyone who's read it who
hasn't been
profoundly effected by it in one way or an other (there is
even a
story that one publisher threw up when he read it) - but
some
preparation maybe in order. For example anyone who has any
strong
feelings about small furry animals should prepare
yourselves.
Perhaps, by way of a metaphorical limbering up, it would be
useful to
give some thought to our four legged friends. How about the
grilled
cat in Dan Kavanagh's "Duffy"? Or, on a lighter and
highly
recommended note, the slaughter of the toads and naked
encounter with
a camel in Peter Guttridge's hughly funny debut "No Laughing
Matter".
Has anyone got any particuarly gruesome pet/animal endings to
relate?
If you are interested I have an excellent interview with
Derek Raymond
in the UK's number one crime mag, "Crimetime", from Oct 95 -
his last
interview before he died and well worth a look. So, FOR
UK
SUBSCRIBERS, if you want a copy I'll snail mail one to
you
if you e-mail me here.
Continuing with the subject of UK writers, the 'problem' with
Timlin
- although Iove his books and they are great - is that he is
a series
writer and its hard to pick out any one book as such. But Ted
Lewis
has written an acknowledged calssic "Get Carter" which was
made
in to a film which is also an acknowledged classic - so
plenty to get
into there.
Finally, just in passing, if you happen to come across
Manchester
based writer Nic Blincoe he is well worth a look as well.
Details an
request.
Also, just one more thing, you could do a lot worse than
Charlie
Higgson's "The King of the Ants" - the "lets reduce his
brains to
putty" and the "cooked brekfeast" scenes are deliciously
gruesome.
And not to mention Mike Ripley's "Angel" books...
P.S Has anyone come acroos the excellent Gwen Butler Insp
Coffin
books?
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