Books: What have you been reading?

[The Darknight Detective]

Looks like that was the first of the Continental Op stories to be published (in the October 1, 1923 issue of Black Mask).

I never realized how many stories there actually were. I read the two novellas and a collection of six short stories before Arson Plus, but that really doesn't scratch the surface much.

[MajorHoy]

I never realized how many stories there actually were. I read the two novellas and a collection of six short stories before Arson Plus, but that really doesn't scratch the surface much.

I recently bought this:

The Big Book of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett
(Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original, November 2017)

even though I may have already read many of the stories in other Hammett collections I already own. But the idea of reading the stories chronologically, plus the other material putting them in context, made it worth buying.

Haven't started reading it yet, though . . .

[The Darknight Detective]

I recently bought this:

The Big Book of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett
(Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original, November 2017)

even though I may have already read many of the stories in other Hammett collections I already own. But the idea of reading the stories chronologically, plus the other material putting them in context, made it worth buying.

Haven't started reading it yet, though . . .

It definitely would be a welcome addition to my library, Major.

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

The Complete Cases of the Secrets, Inc., Volume 2
by Frederick C. Davis

[JaxDragon]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I'm about a hundred pages in, and this is probably the most violent thing I have exposed myself to. That aside, it is truly magnificent story so far.


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[Chubistian]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I'm about a hundred pages in, and this is probably the most violent thing I have exposed myself to. That aside, it is truly magnificent story so far.

I love Blood Meridian

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading William Christie's The Double Agent and submitted my review to Mystery Scene magazine.

I also finished reading an advance copy of Carlene O'Connor's new thriller No Strangers Here.

[The Darknight Detective]

Finally going to do it: The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (written by the Bard of Avon before we were all born - this edition is from 1993). Right now, I'll be reading the Comedies*, take a break, then the Histories, another break, and finally the Tragedies and poems.



Before today, only Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (plus a few sonnets) were read by me 40-something years ago (though I have seen quite a few movie adaptations).

* All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

[Devaishwarya]

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[Chubistian]

I started The Mist, by Stephen King, in my Kindle

[Deathstroke]

Peter Robinson, the author of the DCI Banks mystery series, has passed away.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

The Complete Cases of Steve Midnight, Volume 2
by John K. Butler

[The Darknight Detective]

New Kindle read: The Island Mystery (1918) by George A. Birmingham.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the John Sandford thriller Righteous Prey.