Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Started, Finished

Started…
Bleeders, Bill Pronzini
Against Happiness, Eric G. Wilson
The Drop Edge of Yonder, Rudolph Wurlitzer

Finished
Dirty Money, Richard Stark
Bag Men, Mark Costello
Fidelity, Thomas Perry
Your Movie Sucks, Roger Ebert
Somebody Owes Me Money, Donald Westlake

Reading
Interface, Joe Gores

On Deck
The Murderer Vine, Shepard Rifkin
Severance Package, Duane Swierczynski

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Got an advance of Somebody Owes Me Money? Nice. I got one of The First Quarry.
Is Bleeders a Namelss Detective novel? I read the first 8 or 10 in the series and they're companionable books, with a lot of character, but not necessarily something I figured you'd go for.

Don't let anyone tell you anything about Interface. Slap them if they start.

Chris

Joe Boland said...

I returned from San Francisco feeling I was light on the fictional city, ergo Pronzini and Gores.

Bleeders is a Nameless novel. Note to self: Don’t start 30-book series by picking up #28.

Interface is great –- I’m a quarter of the way in, and already confident that I could, on request, draw a floor plan of any SF bus station c.1974 with some accuracy.

Re: Hard Case, just found out they’re doing the first US printing of Jason Starr’s Fake ID, highly recommended.