Never wait! Buy them when you see them! (Says a former second-hand
bookseller.)
Patrick Murtha
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Emma Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> On a related (Ellroy) note, I went to the Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair
> today, and while the majority of 1st ed. HC noir gems I lusted after were
> --
> as always -- way out of my budget, I did spy a 1st HC of the new antho,
> BEST
> AMERICAN NOIR OF THE CENTURY, signed by both Penzler and Ellroy, for $30.
> Not a screaming deal, I suppose, but a neat signed find of I book that I'd
> planned to read anyhow. Mulled it over, figured I'd pick it up after I
> finished browsing all the booths. Came back a half-hour later, and it was
> gone.
>
> That kinda smack-in-the-face, punch-in-the-gut disappointment is awfully
> hardboiled.
>
> R.e. Hopkins: I remember liking those novels a great deal. That was back
> when Ellroy wrote books that I could still get into.
>
> Ron C.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>[mailto:
> rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> > Behalf Of James Michael Rogers
> > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 9:07 PM
> > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled kinda day.
> >
> > These early Ellroy books are like fritos....you can't have just one. So I
> reread
> > Because The Night. Maybe this time I will finally manage to read Suicide
> Hill (the
> > only one I have never consumed) as well. I haven't read any of these for
> more than
> > twenty years, so I'd pretty much forgotten everything about the Lloyd
> Hopkins
> > stories. BTN was OK until I encountered our old friend, the revolver with
> silencer
> > combo. I'm far from a gun freak, but you would expect these guys to get
> the basic
> > facts right.
> >
> > Got to follow that up, courtesy of Internet Archive, with the Ida Lupino
> written and
> > directed flick The Hitch- Hiker. Very good movie. In short, I had a Rara
> Avis sort of
> > day.
> >
> > James
> >
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> >
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