Rule #1:
Never walk away from a book you desire.... like any good dame, she'll be gone
once you return.
Cheers,
Steve
http://www.stevegerlach.com
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From: Emma Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net>
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 10 October, 2010 5:43:24 PM
Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled kinda day.
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 [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of James Michael Rogers
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 9:07 PM
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.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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