Books: What have you been reading?

[GemSaloon007]

I have heard of Frederick Nebel. I saw someone in this thread reading him a while back and looked him up. Seems like his Cardigan and Macbride and Kennedy are his most well-known.

[MajorHoy]

I have heard of Frederick Nebel. I saw someone in this thread reading him a while back . . .

That might have been me.

If you're interested, the company that's been putting out collections of his stories is Steeger Books (https://steegerbooks.com/).

[Chubistian]

Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
Save the Cat!, by Blake Snyder

[Deathstroke]

I finished Jon Land's Murder, She Wrote: The Murder Of Twelve.

[FluffySheep]

I'm currently reading The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding. It's off to a good start.

[batnbreakfast]

Want to read me some James Ellroy and was wondering where is a good book to start? Years ago I loved (not kidding LOVED) L.A.Confidential and right now I am eyeing Perfidia (but there's so many)

[MajorHoy]

Want to read me some James Ellroy and was wondering where is a good book to start? Years ago I loved (not kidding LOVED) L.A.Confidential and right now I am eyeing Perfidia (but there's so many)

Haven't read any Ellroy myself, but L.A. Confidential was part of his L.A. Quartet series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/56669-l-a-quartet

It also appears Perfidia is the first book in what is being referred to as the Second L.A. Quartet series, set prior to the books in the original L.A. Quartet series, but it looks like there have only been two books issued so far for that foursome (Perfidia and This Storm). Also, wikipedia says some of the characters in the L.A. Quartet series first appeared in Ellroy's book Clandestine first published in 1982. (The first book in the L.A. Quartet series came out five years after that.)

[batnbreakfast]

Thank you for caring Major but I had done the research myself and was looking for opinions. I guess I like his writing on a case (or book) by case/book basis.

[Jack Dracula]

(ab)normal psychology, Fifth edition by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

[BeastieRunner]

Thank you for caring Major but I had done the research myself and was looking for opinions. I guess I like his writing on a case (or book) by case/book basis.

Have you seen the movie?

It is, IMHO, one of the rare instances of a book and film being equally good.

It is a great modernization of the noir genre. The characters are very dynamic and the plots & sub-plots are well-planned and feel organic. It feels like at times the author enjoys slowly unraveling the sub-plots. It reads like a movie. The characters have great agency. They are always on the make and playing one another. Get ready for lots of accurate 50s slang!

I would continue down the LA Quartet path in order. Black Dahlia being my favorite of his. You already read LA but should be fine.

[batnbreakfast]

Have you seen the movie?

It is, IMHO, one of the rare instances of a book and film being equally good.

It is a great modernization of the noir genre. The characters are very dynamic and the plots & sub-plots are well-planned and feel organic. It feels like at times the author enjoys slowly unraveling the sub-plots. It reads like a movie. The characters have great agency. They are always on the make and playing one another. Get ready for lots of accurate 50s slang!

I would continue down the LA Quartet path in order. Black Dahlia being my favorite of his. You already read LA but should be fine.

Thank you, Beastie. Yes, the movie is great as well. I would pick up Black Dahlia now but already own the movie and the Graphic Novel from Archaia. The novel is probably better but I'm already familiar with the broad strokes now.

White Jazz should be a good way to continue reading for me. After WJ I'll move on to Perfidia.

[The Darknight Detective]

Latest reading starting today: the short story The Damned Thing (1898) by Ambrose Bierce and the novella The Voice in the Fog (1915) by Harold MacGrath.

[The Darknight Detective]

Newest book I'm reading: The Last Man (2012), the thirteenth and final Mitch Rapp novel written by the late Vince Flynn.



Kindle-wise, it's the novella The House of the Vampire (1907) by George Sylvester Viereck.

[Deathstroke]

Newest book I'm reading: The Last Man (2012), the thirteenth and final Mitch Rapp novel written by the late Vince Flynn.

You know the series was continued by Kyle Mills, who was hired by the estate and the publisher, right? Mills has done an amazing job not only keeping the series alive but making the series his own as well. I got to meet him on his book tour a couple books back.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading Murder, She Wrote: Murder In Season by Jon Land. It's the sixth and final book in the series that Land wrote. Like the previous five I found it to be a darn good read.

Tonight I'm going to a book signing for another author whose work I completely adore and I've been invited to dinner with the author afterwards.