CALIBRE is US only, too. So's A FIFTH OF BRUEN. BAUDELAIRE is
terrific. I've read them all and that's one of the best.
AMERICAN SKIN is right up there too. Hell of an opening
chapter.
Delighted to see Derek Raymond made it onto the Observer best
novels list at the weekend:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1890228,00.html
Just read a Ted Lewis not so long ago, BILLY RAGS. Forgotten
just how good a writer he was. I also went to see the stage
play version of GET CARTER during the Edinburgh Festival
(thanks to Karin and Kerry for the heads up). Extremely well
done, with only a handful of characters. Great set and clever
use of props. Plenty of sex and blood. Great music. All the
violence was done in slo-mo, which was highly effective. Only
slight criticism: Jack Carter started narrating part-way
through, and his narrative interludes (straight from the
book) became just a bit intrusive. I couldn't help but feel
that there were better ways of imparting the information.
Expository dumps like that rarely work. But nine out of ten
otherwise.
BTW, there's a new 'postmodern pulp' edition of the
Mississippi Review. http://www.mississippireview.com/
Last Anthony Neil Smith-edited issue produced some of the
best shorts I've read in a long time (including the opening
chapter of AMERICAN SKIN).
Cheers,
Al
----- Original Message -----
From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net
To:
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Irish (and a touch of
British) questions
Thanks for all of the answers, Al. I have no
memory of that car ad.
Odd.
As for American Skin, we finally got a Bruen book
first? (Well, I guess
we did with Bust, too.) Very cool. I got tired
enough of waiting for
his US releases that I finally broke down and
ordered The Priest from
the UK (along with the new Derek Raymond, which
won't be here for a
while, another UK Bruen, Dispatching Baudelaire,
and a Ted Lewis
unavailable here, The Rabbit).
Mark
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