As I never seem to be able to find anything mentioned on this
list on my shelves (and boxes), I was pleasantly surprised to
find both IRONSIDE (POPULAR lIBRARY 1967) and THE UNDEFEATED
(Popular Library 1969) by Jim Thompson. They were behind a
stack of John D. MacDonald novels and under a stack of boxing
biographies and autobiographies including books by or about
Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Johnson, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,
and the less well known British Champion Henry Cooper and the
and really obscure Australian Johnny Famechon.
If you are really into boxing, Johnny's autobiography FAMMO
(Sun Books 1971), which I bought on R&R leave from
Vietnam in 1971, is a very good read. His two defenses of the
world featherweight championship against the Japanese
ex-champion Fighting Harada in 1969 and 1970 were classics. I
was a huge boxing fan in those days.
But now that I have found them. I will read and review them
to add my opinion to your judgement on whether to buy them or
not. The IRONSIDE book gets some kudos, so I will read that
first.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Channing"
<filmtroll@...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone read the Jim Thompson tie-ins?
> Is his Ironside on par with the other Ironside
books
> or does Thompson inject his own personal style into
it?
>
> Being a Thompson completist, I'm wondering if it's
worth my
> $20-$30 to track down a dog-eared copy
> of "The Undefeated" just to read a movie
tie-in?
>
> I mean, I will probably do it anyway, but is it
worth my money?
>
> --Chan
>
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