What are you currently reading?

[Ken B]

The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing

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[NikF]

The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing

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Ken, I've noticed you read crime novels. You ever read this one? I'm thinking of ordering it.

Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze.

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[Ken B]

Nik
No. Never seen that one before.

[Spineur]

The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing

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I read all of them.  My favorite is Cornell Woolrich "I married a dead man", then Mc Cain "The postman rings twice".  The big clock is not quite in the same league nor is nightmare alley, but they are still good reads.

[NikF]

Nik
No. Never seen that one before.

Thanks anyway. I'll probably give it a try in any case.

[Ken B]

I read all of them.  My favorite is Cornell Woolrich "I married a dead man", then Mc Cain "The postman rings twice".  The big clock is not quite in the same league nor is nightmare alley, but they are still good reads.

All of these have been filmed, some several times. I have seen Nightmare Alley, but have not yet decided if I will read it. I am quite liking Clock, halfway through.

[Florestan]

My favorite Victor Hugo is 93. 

Mine, too. And Les travailleurs de la mer (Toilers of the Sea)

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Mine, too. And Les travailleurs de la mer (Toilers of the Sea)

Still haven't read those two. :/ After I have read unabridged les Miserables, I think I'll  finally pick up Ninety-three. And considering Les miserables is one of the longest novels ever written, in its unabridged form, it may take a while. But it's Hugo so I think I'm gonna have a good time.

[NikF]

Dancing on my Grave by Gelsey Kirkland.



A reread.

[ludwigii]

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Essays and Aphorisms




INGO F.WALTHER
Picasso
Taschen

[Ken B]

The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing

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Now onto Nightmare Alley by Gresham

[Bogey]

This is an excellent story.  Much better than the Roger Moore adaptation which I find unwatchable.  Other notable recent reads:

 
 
 

[Ken B]

How was the Goodis, Bill?

[Bogey]

How was the Goodis, Bill?

You know, a lot of folks over at Good Reads at the pulp fiction group really enjoyed this one.  I found it slow, not much of a page turner, and overall, meh.  I really enjoyed his Night Patrol book, and this was suppose to be one of his best.  However the Stark (Westlake) was terrific....but you already knew that.

[kishnevi]

Might be of interest to several people here. Covers both his book and movie work, including unused posters and originals of art on which the publishers unleashed Daniele da Volterra.

[Bogey]

Might be of interest to several people here. Covers both his book and movie work, including unused posters and originals of art on which the publishers unleashed Daniele da Volterra.

Absolutely.  I am guessing you are a Mitchell Hooks fan as well.

[Karl Henning]

This is an excellent story.  Much better than the Roger Moore adaptation which I find unwatchable.

Indeed, by then they had passed the point of no return from the goofiness.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Jaws trying to fly by flapping his hands.

[Karl Henning]

I am not reading George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack, which is the book I want to finish.  (It is on a shelf somewhere at home, and I must hunt more diligently.)

So instead, I am reading an e-book edition of Ean Wood's George Gershwin: His Life & Music which is four or five clicks nearer a fanzine biography than I quite like, but, faute de mieux . . . .

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Reading Mark Twain's "Roughing it".