Re: RARA-AVIS: Somerset Maugham

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 01 Mar 2005


I read a decent, short murder mystery SM wrote titled UP AT THE VILLA. Not hardboiled or noir but entertaining still.

Ed Lynskey

--- Michael Robison < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Max Gilbert wrote:
>
> My favorite portrayal of Crowley is in William
> Somerset Maugham's THE MAGICIAN, not one of his better
> known books but a fun read. If you can imagine
> Maugham writing a weird menace novel, this would be
> it.
>
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> The only thing I've read by Maugham is his OF HUMAN
> BONDAGE, a good book but off-topic for the list. I
> did see a movie recently called Secret Agent, which
> said it was based on one of his books. It had the
> typical lighting that's attributed to a noir flick,
> without really being too noirish.
>
> miker
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