Currently reading:
He Who Hesitates by Ed McBain - "An 87th Precinct Novel"
(orig. © 1965 / this version by Avon Books 1986)
Currently reading:
He Who Hesitates by Ed McBain - "An 87th Precinct Novel"
(orig. © 1965 / this version by Avon Books 1986)
Just finished reading the story "Smart-Aleck Kill" in
The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler
The Thirty Years War (1938) by C.V. Wedgwood
Europeans are crazy.
Currently reading:
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley ("Easy Rawlins")
I finished The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. I thought it was good, and I wish he had more fantasy books.
Tonight I should be finishing Childhood's End by Arthur C Clark. I liked it. I really enjoyed the 1st half of the book, and thought the 2nd half was good but went down hill compared to the 1st.
Next up is Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Micheal Crichton. I enjoy the movies, especially the 1st one, but have never read the books.
When I was seventeen,
I drank some very good beer,
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID.
My name was Brian McGee,
I stayed up listenin' to Queen
When I was seventeen.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Currently reading:
Fuzz by Ed McBain - "A Novel of the 87th Precinct"
(orig. © 1968 / this version by Mandarin Paperbacks 1991)
Two of my reviews got in the new issue of Mystery Scene magazine.
Hard Aground by Brendan Dubois
Bloody January by Alan Parks
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
We Think the World of You (1960) by J.R. Ackerley
from My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane (orig. © 1950)When you sit at home comfortably folded up in a chair beside a fire, have you ever thought about what goes on outside there? Probably not. You pick up a book and read about things and stuff, getting a vicarious kick from people and events that never happened. You're doing it now, getting ready to fill in a normal life with the details of someone else's experiences. Fun, isn't it? You read about life on the outside thinking of how maybe you'd like it to happen to you, or at least how you'd like to watch it. Even the old Romans did it, spiced their life with action when they sat in the Coliseum and watched wild animals rip a bunch of humans apart, reveling in the sight of blood and terror . . .
The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander. Fun little adventure with enjoyable characters. I've always been into Greek mythology so I love how influenced the novel is by those stories.
Over the next few weeks:
My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
The Passages of H.M. by Jay Parini
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
Black skin, white masks - Fanon.
Powerful.