Re: RARA-AVIS: The best novel you read this year

From: Nathan Cain ( IndieCrime@gmail.com)
Date: 29 Dec 2007


Crooked Little Vein was a terrible novel. I read up to the last chapter and then realized I didn't give a damn how it ended and put it on the shelf. Mr. Ellis ought to stick with comics.

On Dec 29, 2007 4:38 PM, Gonzalo Baeza < gbaeza@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not to be repetitive, but the best novel I read this year was Fat City
> by Leonard Gardner. I can't recommend it enough. Other good ones were:
> Richard Bachman's Blaze, Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice (no
> matter how many times I read it, I still find it perfect), Dan
> Marlowe's The Name of the Game is Death (same as Postman...), Charlie
> Huston's Caught Stealing, James Reasoner's Death Head Crossing, Iain
> Levison's Since the Layoffs (obscure yet deserving of more
> recognition). Best non fiction: Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer.
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> The worst: Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein, Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped
> Box (never understood the hype), Doris Lessing's The Cleft and Don
> DeLillo's Falling Man.
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> -Gonzalo B.
> saddlebums.blogspot.com
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Zeltserman" <dz@...> wrote:
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> > My favorite crime fiction novel read during 2007 was The Dain Curse
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> > Hammett, but my favorite new crime novel was Reasonable Doubts by
> > Gianrico Carofiglio. Other very good novels read: Dead Street by the
> > Mick, Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill (maybe the best true noir novel
> > I've come across in years), Cross by Ken Bruen, Cruel Poetry by Vicki
> > Hendricks, reprints by Hardcase: Vengeful Virgin, The Peddler, The
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> > Dodge--all excellent.
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> > --Dave Zeltserman
> > http://smallcrimes-novel.blogspot.com
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