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.
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| Tub 5 |
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| A couple of Vietnam books, another Robert Wilson. John Williams follow-up from the influential Into the Badlands and a bit of Mafia crime. |
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| I have most of Pete Dexter's books - unread of course. |
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| Frantzen - I've read Freedom, Mark Billingham - UK author |
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| 2 from Irish author Declan Hughes, another George Higgins |
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| Herbert Lieberman, Simon Kernick, 2 John Rain - Barry Eisler books and David Armstrong |
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| Only discovered Armstrong a few months ago when on a trip to Lowestoft. |
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| 3 more Vietnam themed and a Muhammed Ali book |
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| Vietnam |
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| 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! |
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| 3 - UK authors, Robinson, Bowker and the non-crime Gayle, plus Deaver short stories |
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| Bought because of the Bruen short. |
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| Need that date for the logging! |
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| Charles Willeford - double edition |
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| Steinbeck, MacCarthy and Dave Eggers |
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| 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 |
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| Don't suppose Mr Goad's book won any prizes for cover art |
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| A burglar book by Block, an early non-Rebus Rankin and an Irene Dische book |
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| Joe Jordan - football autobiography. I did love him as a player. John Trolan - Irish author, Thom Jones |
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| Short stories |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| GOAD |
JIM |
SHIT MAGNET |
2002 |
|
| HEATH |
LAYNE |
CW2 |
1991 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| WESTLAKE |
DONALD |
THE SACRED STIFF |
2003 |
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| WILLEFORD |
CHARLES |
HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA |
1953 |
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| WILLEFORD |
CHARLES |
WILD WIVES |
1956 |
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| WILLIAMS |
JOHN |
BACK TO THE BADLANDS |
2006 |
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| WILSON |
ROBERT |
THE BIG KILLING |
1996 |
BM2 |
| WINSLOW |
DON |
CALIFORNIA FIRE & LIFE |
1999 |
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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.
ReplyDeleteFrantzen probably looks the worst, though it is a large print edition - I can give my glasses a rest when I get around to this.
DeleteJohn 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.
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.
DeleteI 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.
DeleteCol - 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.
ReplyDeleteMargot, 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 :)
DeleteMy 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....
ReplyDeleteHmm, I didn't think this tub was especially bleak.....obviously it might be getting a lot darker as we go along.
DeleteJust looked through it again, on reflection maybe not too many happy-clappy-smiley books
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?
ReplyDeleteAt 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.
DeleteI 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.
Have you seen Casino? Glen and I like it very much. Very long, so we don't watch it too frequently.
DeleteI 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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