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Last week I also deliver assign to Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid and Max Allan Collins’ Deadly Beloved, both published by Hard Case Crime. Forthrightly, neither really blew me away, and perhaps that’s not the point. Hard Case books provide quick, diverting reads: they’re first and in the first place entertainment. That’s fine, and I’ll be quick to say both had me compulsively turning their pages. They’re competently written and executed. But they’re both one-dimensional. I wasn’t surprised that Implacable Beloved was originally a comic strip—it had that simplistic quality of comics that never translates well into books or film (and that’s coming from someone who loves the offerings of Astonished at and DC, not to mention Hergé).
I want more from my noir. I like crime literature that reveals and ponders on the scurvy details of life, particularly life beyond the respectable and the law. That’s why I like Jim Thompson’s books. Frankly, the plots themselves don’t blow me out. (I haven’t yet read The Killer Inside Me yet; I understand that’s great on all counts, including story.) But I’m fatigued in by Thompson’s descriptions of people, places, and mood; his artistry of language and imagery; and the subtle yet deliberate way he conveys his worldview. I didn’t get that from either Pitiless Beloved or The Colorado Kid. Contrary to what you might think, I have found it Mickey Spillane’s words. And not to constantly blow Contentious Books’ horn (that sounds obscene), but Don’t Call Me a Crook! delivers it too.
But all that said, there are two things I appreciated about The Colorado Kid. It commits the pleasant sin of breaking that most holy of compacts with the reader: it leaves the mystery unresolved. I like that. I like that a lot. As the two crusty newspaper editors in Kid privy, that’s life—an unresolved mystery.
...As a New Year's single-mindedness for 2008, I decided to try to read fifty books over the course of the year - I succeeded (just!), and here is the tabulation ...
The venerable man looked at the wooden lectern. On May 7, 2005, the horror author Stephen King gave the commencement address to graduates at the University of Maine, his residence state. In it, he half-joked: “If I show up at your house in ten years from now ... and find nothing on your bedroom night mesa but the newest Dan Brown novel ... I’ll chase you to the end of your driveway, screaming, ‘Where are your books? Why are you living on the intellectual close of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese?’ ”
An interesting analogy from a writer who endured a hanker critical ice age, during which his own books would sell by the million but pass unnoticed in the posh papers’ earmark sections. In 1982, in an afterword to the anthology Different Seasons , King referred to his own work as “the literary commensurate of a Big Mac and large fries”, which makes this a unique case of the burger calling the macaroni cheese junk.
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The key to Dan Brown's success
On May 7, 2005, the trepidation author Stephen King gave the commencement address to graduates at the University of Maine, his home state. and more »
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MTV.comDarabont is richest known for his work on the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" an adaptation of Stephen King's short anecdote Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Terminator Producer Brings Walking Dead to TVall 82 word articles »
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Astros trade uniforms for tuxes at wives' gala
Applauding their efforts were guests including Rice Opera Studies leader Richard Bado and Rice voice professor Stephen King, both on the festival faculty,
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Midday open thread So, Stephen King reads . I'm pretty unfailing a few of us read him too. Columbia Journalism Review corrects the dishonest correction issued by |
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Documentary maker looking for haunted cars I do cognizant of that in my research on the haunted Hinsdale House property, there are stories of a "ghost" car that approaches the real estate. Stephen King |
A Silence, Now Coldly Permanent, in a Mill Town
Through the summers, when red berries dotted the encroaching verdant brush; through the winters, when the looming emptiness conjured Stephen King thoughts. and more »
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Documenting the Atrocities Spy ops, Stephen King original settings, and the Yakuza: just another day in the filming of The Cove. Photos: The chaos, brutality, and humanity of America's and more » |
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Mythical monster Turner beast It is the chairwoman monster in Stephen King's "Pet Sematary." It also may be, according to a Canadian researcher, the identity of the creature hit by a car |
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Hilarious New The Simpsons: Season 12 DVD Clip The opportunity ripe also boasts an impressive line-up of talented guest stars including Drew Barrymore, Edward Norton, Justin Timberlake, Stephen King, Andre Agassi, and more » |
Long the snout didn't turn out so out of focus :(
Shahrukh Khan dancing at the tunes of an NRI fianc at a programme in Atlantic City on Saturday.
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