Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Westlake

From: funkmasterj@runbox.com
Date: 08 Oct 2007


----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:42:20 -0000 From: "Curt Purcell" < curtpurcell@hotmail.com> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Westlake

> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
> >
> > So you've got Westlake, Stark, Coe and Holt. Other names he's published
> > under (leaving out the ones for the soft porn books, Edwin West, Allan
> > Marshall, etc)
>
> Why leaving those out? Some of those sleaze pbs can get awfully rough
> and hardboiled or noirish. When I started reading them, I was amazed
> at how downbeat and violent they could be. Some of them would fit in
> very nicely among other titles discussed here!
>
I wonder how much his Adios Scheherezade (which has a true title of Adios, Motherf*cker) is based on his own experience. It's an introspective book about a guy who writes formulaic porn books.

Jordan

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