You may have noticed that there haven't been as many entries here at BLOG! in recent weeks. Part of that is due to a busy schedule, but it's also due to the fact that I've been doing a lot more reading than writing.
And the stuff I've been reading has been primarily pulp fiction. When I graduated from college back in '87, I took a break from "quality lit" to immerse myself in paperback crime novels of the '40s and '50s. I must have read several hundred over the next couple of years, and lately, I'm back on the same pace.
Here's a list of recent reads:
TEXAS BY THE TAIL
SOUTH OF HEAVEN
by Jim Thompson
THE SPIDERWEB
SHOOTING STAR
by Robert Bloch
OF TENDER SIN
THE WOUNDED AND THE SLAIN
by David Goodis
THE END OF A PRIMITITVE
YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY
by Chester Himes
A DIET OF TREACLE
GRIFTER’S GAME
LUCKY AT CARDS
by Lawrence Block
STRONGARM
THE VENGEANCE MAN
by Dan J. Marlowe
THE PRETTIEST GIRL I EVER KILLED by Charles Runyon
HOUSE OF FLESH by Bruno Fischer
MONGO'S BACK IN TOWN by Richard E. Johnson
BLACKMAILER by George Axelrod
THE PEDDLER by Richard S. Prather
BURY ME DEEP by Harold Q. Masur
TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyers
MAGIC CARPET RIDE by John Kay
1 comment:
I remember your penchant for these novels, JM. Jim Thompson was a familiar name.
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