Miker wrote:
> al mentions new orion reprint series:
>
>
>
> darn! thats a bummer! a lotta that stuff,
like
> thompson's, macdonald's, and hammett's books,
are
> already in print. i wish they'd bail on those
and
> print some that i can't find in print, like
charles
> williams, carroll john daly, peter rabe, and
derek
> raymond, to name a few.
>
> miker
>
>
This is something I've found rather frustrating - although
it's great to see this stuff in print, why do they always
seem to reprint stuff that's either hardly ever been out of
print (e.g. Hammett) or stuff that's been reprinted several
times in recent years. Out of the books in the Orion list
that are of personal interest to me, only one of them
(NIGHTWEBS by Woolrich) is a title that I couldn't probably
go out & pick up a copy of today. On a positive note, I
vaguely recall that there are plans to reissue the Derek
Raymond novels & one of the Gorman or Pronzini
anthologies, I can't recall which, sorry, reprints Peter
Rabe's THE BOX in it's entirety. THE BOX is probably the best
Rabe novel I've read & he's an author I like a lot. (Rabe
was an early influence on Donald Westlake, as evidenced by
Westlake's first novel, THE MERCENARIES & his article on
Rabe in MURDER OFF THE RACK. THE MERCENARIES is also a
recommended read, by the way.)
Rene
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