The first Brooklyn Noir was very good. Pete Hamil's 'The Book
Signing' was an excellent story. There was a very short,
short story, I think by Kenji Jasper, that was also very
good. In Wall Street Noir, "The Quant" by Charles Ardai,
really stood out. That whole book had an exceptional line up,
however, and I would recommend it.
On Jan 14, 2008 2:02 PM, Right Guy <
rightguy60@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Have read a huge chunk of these and the true,
glaring
> winners out of the bulk of ones I've invested time
and
> attention toward were the first of the two
Brooklyn
> volumes, London edited by Cathi Unsworth, the DC
and
> Baltimore editions by George Pelecanos and
Laura
> Lipman respectively, as well as Los Angeles, edited
by
> Denise Hamilton. All of these titles in
the
> series--the last volume listed in
> particular--exemplified the diversity of the
region
> and succeeded in capturing (and in some
instances
> modifying) the true spirit of what noir is and all
its
> still vast and untapped possibilities.
>
> The remaining ones that I've read (and there's a
good
> chunk I've indifferently not bothered with) and
while
> they all contained serviceable writing, thought
they
> for one reason or another were somewhat limp and
or
> failed in their objective. The Minneapolis volume
in
> particular I thought was at best, objectively weak
in
> the knees to say the least. The Bruen edited
Dublin
> edition wasn't among these but surprisingly enough,
it
> wasn't altogether very strong which is
saying
> something I guess, when you consider what a
rabid
> Bruen fan I am.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -PD
> www.yourfleshmag.com
>
>
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