Sunday, 2 November 2014

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FIVE

Week 5 and a minor slip already, insofar as I haven't yet updated the all important spreadsheet with week 4's books. I think if I don't do the necessary and dot all the i's and cross the t's each week, the project is doomed to failure.

Anyway, I'll see if I can catch-up during the coming week.

Tub 5 

A couple of Vietnam books, another Robert Wilson. John Williams follow-up from the influential Into the Badlands and a bit of Mafia crime.
I have most of Pete Dexter's books - unread of course.

Frantzen - I've read Freedom, Mark Billingham - UK author

2 from Irish author Declan Hughes, another George Higgins

Herbert Lieberman, Simon Kernick, 2 John Rain - Barry Eisler books and David Armstrong

Only discovered Armstrong a few months ago when on a trip to Lowestoft.

3 more Vietnam themed and a Muhammed Ali book

Vietnam

Martin Clark - hopefully better than his debut, Angel book from Mike Ripley, a three-fer from Will Christopher Baer - looks like fun reading that one in bed!

3 - UK authors, Robinson, Bowker and the non-crime Gayle, plus Deaver short stories

Bought because of the Bruen short.

Need that date for the logging!

Charles Willeford - double edition

Steinbeck, MacCarthy and Dave Eggers

Another Himes book, Dexter (didn't really enjoy the first), Bing Banged My Lula - a book about single mums! (18 x 5 stars reviews from 19 on Amazon - but no I don't know why I have this), Jim Goad - Shit Magnet

Don't suppose Mr Goad's book won any prizes for cover art

A burglar book by Block, an early non-Rebus Rankin and an Irene Dische book

Joe Jordan - football autobiography. I did love him as a player. John Trolan - Irish author, Thom Jones

Short stories


Westlake, Peter Leonard, Don Winslow, Lee Child and another fictional Vietnam book
Highlights - nothing stand out though I'm looking forward to the Baer books. I think the first concerns a PI who gets drugged, wakes up and someone has stolen one of his kidneys - seems like my kind of book. Two and three follow the same protagonist - Phineas Poe.

I've read a fair few of these a long time ago, mainly the Vietnam books most of which are first hand memoirs. If time allows I will re-read again before moving them on.

Leonard, Lieberman and Willeford would be the ones I'd try and save in a fire!
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Full list......
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
ARMSTRONG DAVID NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS 1993 JM1
BAER WILL CHRISTOPHER KISS ME JUDAS 1998 PP1
BAER WILL CHRISTOPHER PENNY DREADFUL 2000 PP2
BAER WILL CHRISTOPHER HELL'S HALF ACRE 2004 PP3
BILLINGHAM MARK IN THE DARK 2008
BINGHAM/WALLACE HOWARD/MAX MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT 2000
BLOCK LAWRENCE THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS 1994 BR6
BOWKER DAVID RAWHEAD IN LOVE 2002
CHILD LEE BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE 2007 JR11
CLARK MARTIN THE LEGAL LIMIT 2008
DEAVER JEFFERY MORE TWISTED 2006
DEXTER PETE SPOONER 2009
DISCHE IRENE THE JOB 2002
DONOVAN DAVID ONCE A WARRIOR KING 1985
EGGERS DAVE HOW WE ARE HUNGRY 2004
EISLER BARRY RAIN FALL 2002 JR1
EISLER BARRY THE LAST ASSASSIN 2006 JR5
FRANZEN JONATHAN THE CORRECTIONS 2001
GAYLE MIKE TURNING THIRTY 2000
GOAD JIM SHIT MAGNET 2002
HEATH LAYNE CW2 1991
HIGGINS GEORGE V AT END OF DAY 2000
HIMES CHESTER THE BIG GOLD DREAM 1960 CEJ4
HUGHES DECLAN THE COLOUR OF BLOOD 2007 EL2
HUGHES DECLAN THE PRICE OF BLOOD 2008 EL3
JONES THOM THE PUGILIST AT REST 1993
JORDAN JOE BEHIND THE DREAM 2004
KERNICK SIMON DEADLINE 2008
LEONARD PETER QUIVER 2008
LIEBERMAN HERBERT THE GREEN TRAIN 1986
LINDSAY JEFF DEXTER IN THE DARK 2007 D3
McCARTHY CORMAC NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2005
PAGE TIM PAGE AFTER PAGE 1990
PARK FRANKIE BING BANGED MY LULA 2000
PILEGGI NICHOLAS GOODFELLAS 1985
QUEEN  ELLERY MYSTERY MAGAZINE (NOV2004) 2004
RANKIN IAN WATCHMAN 1988
RIPLEY  MIKE LIGHTS CAMERA ANGEL 2001 FMA10
RISNER JAMES ROBINSON THE PASSING OF THE NIGHT 1973
ROBINSON PETER A DEDICATED MAN 1988 IB2
SANTOLI AL  TO BEAR ANY BURDEN 1985
STEINBECK JOHN OF MICE AND MEN 1937
TROLAN  JOHN SLOW PUNCTURES 1999
WEST RICHARD VICTORY IN VIETNAM 1974
WESTLAKE DONALD THE SACRED STIFF 2003
WILLEFORD CHARLES HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA 1953
WILLEFORD CHARLES WILD WIVES 1956
WILLIAMS JOHN BACK TO THE BADLANDS 2006
WILSON ROBERT THE BIG KILLING 1996 BM2
WINSLOW DON CALIFORNIA FIRE & LIFE 1999

12 comments:

  1. Col, many of the authors in your Tub 5 are familiar although the size of some of these hardbacks is daunting. I'd, however, like to read BACK TO THE BADLANDS: CRIME WRITING IN THE USA, which sounds interesting, as well as the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. I loved Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN.

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    1. Frantzen probably looks the worst, though it is a large print edition - I can give my glasses a rest when I get around to this.
      John Williams - Into the Badlands helped introduce me to a lot of authors who have remained favourites of mine in the crime fiction scene since. I haven't yet read this follow-up, but books about books and about writers are enjoyable in their own way.
      I don't have many EQMM's as I never really had them on my radar. I think one particular author grabbed my attention and so I bought a couple of issues only. OF MICE AND MEN, I have read before. I think all my children studied the book at school and the library copy is one of theirs. Worth a re-read in my opinion.

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    2. Col, I read OF MICE AND MEN and CANNERY ROW together in a Penguin paperback. I also liked Steinbeck's novella THE MOON IS DOWN set during a war, presumably WWII. I'll check out the BADLANDS book.

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    3. I think I read about 5 of Steinbeck's short books including the ones you mention back into 2010 - pre-blogging times. I loved GRAPES OF WRATH also and will hopefully re-read it some day.

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  2. Col - I see you have Goodfellas. If you get to that one I'll be keen to know what you think of it. And the Declan Hughes work. And I do hope you like that Martin Clark. I thought it had some good things to recommend it.

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    1. Margot, I can't remember from buying Goodfellas whether it is fact or fiction and I didn't have time to study them all when photographing. Declan Hughes - I read and enjoyed his first book. I think these are PI fiction with a series character, Ed Loy - from memory, so I may be wrong. This Clark, I'm hoping I enjoy more than the last. Not holding anyone responsible other than myself - but I think you tipped me off to him...haha :)

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  3. My children tell me about the dark internet - this looks to me like the dark library or the dark tub. Very little here is familiar to me at all, not even the authors' names in most cases. I'll watch out for them appearing in full reviews....

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    1. Hmm, I didn't think this tub was especially bleak.....obviously it might be getting a lot darker as we go along.
      Just looked through it again, on reflection maybe not too many happy-clappy-smiley books

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  4. Several here that I am interested in reading, but most interesting is the Mike Ripley book. I have a book by Pileggi that Goodfellas was based on, but it has a different title. Maybe he also did a novelization of the movie?

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    1. At one time I was trying to get all of Ripley's Angel series of books, but got side-tracked, I have a few but have yet to read any of them.
      I just looked up Pileggi. Wiseguy was his original non-fiction book about the Mafia. Scorsese read it and contacted him and they co-wrote the film Goodfellas. I believe Goodfellas is the same Wiseguy book just re-issued to obviously sell on the back off the film. I think the same collaboration occurred with another of his books - Casino.

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    2. Have you seen Casino? Glen and I like it very much. Very long, so we don't watch it too frequently.

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    3. I think I may have seen it years ago, though I don't think it left too much of an impression on me, otherwise my recollection would be clearer. Maybe time for a re-watch!

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