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June 19, 2019
COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century American Crime
BOOK/Novella 189 (of 250)
This is the book that started it all and sent me down the rabbit hole: Pulp Fiction, I discovered, is pretty good. So I started my search for other authors I'd never heard of. And I discovered some truly great books by Mid-Century authors, but the 'pulp fiction' label encompassed many genres. I found 'police procedural authors', some in the genre of 'who-done-it-murder-mystery', some in the "psychological crime-games" and a several five star masterpieces that are hard to classify. At the time of the reading of "One, Two, Three", I had not developed my rating system, hence this short summary and the 2.6 rating. (And for me, a goodreads 3 stars is a good rating, I liked it!) Why 2.6? It's in league with weak Jim Thompson, average Earl Stanley Gardner or average Rex Stout. It's great in atmosphere, a bit lacking in plot.
ORIGINAL:
George Carrol Sims wrote screenplays under the name of Peter Ruric who wrote pulp fiction under the name of Paul Cain, according to editor Otto Penzler. This short story is heavy on style: "We finished the bottle and Raines snooped around and found a full one and we did a little business with that." Published in 1933, you can find this gem in Penzler's "Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps". I've always listed crime/mystery as my favorite fiction genre, but I'm slowly arriving at the conclusion that as far as fiction in general, American Pulp Fiction is as good as American fiction writing gets.
BOOK/Novella 189 (of 250)
This is the book that started it all and sent me down the rabbit hole: Pulp Fiction, I discovered, is pretty good. So I started my search for other authors I'd never heard of. And I discovered some truly great books by Mid-Century authors, but the 'pulp fiction' label encompassed many genres. I found 'police procedural authors', some in the genre of 'who-done-it-murder-mystery', some in the "psychological crime-games" and a several five star masterpieces that are hard to classify. At the time of the reading of "One, Two, Three", I had not developed my rating system, hence this short summary and the 2.6 rating. (And for me, a goodreads 3 stars is a good rating, I liked it!) Why 2.6? It's in league with weak Jim Thompson, average Earl Stanley Gardner or average Rex Stout. It's great in atmosphere, a bit lacking in plot.
ORIGINAL:
George Carrol Sims wrote screenplays under the name of Peter Ruric who wrote pulp fiction under the name of Paul Cain, according to editor Otto Penzler. This short story is heavy on style: "We finished the bottle and Raines snooped around and found a full one and we did a little business with that." Published in 1933, you can find this gem in Penzler's "Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps". I've always listed crime/mystery as my favorite fiction genre, but I'm slowly arriving at the conclusion that as far as fiction in general, American Pulp Fiction is as good as American fiction writing gets.
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