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Hi all - looking for noir/hardboiled fans
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Hi Bob. You may have opened a can of worms... you'll have more recommendations than you will ever be able to read! Welcome.
L.A. Noire: The Collected StoriesJust got a heads up from Larry Block that this is free on the Kindle, if anyone is interested:http://www.amazon.com/L-Noire-Collect...
Do want, love the game; when is it going to be available?
The book is available this week only for free on the Kindle.
Wasn't available on amazon Australia, but I got it free on iBooks
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For classic noir you might want to try Cornell Woolrich....he wrote during the 1940s and his books are very dark. Some of them are:The Bride Wore Black
Rear Window and Three O'Clock
Match Me Sidney!: The No Exit Press Crime Anthology
Alfred Hitchcock turned one of his stories into the classic film with James Stewart and Grace Kelly....Rear Window.
There's also the Berlin Noir trilogy by Phillip Kerr.Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem
A P.I. in Nazi Germany before, during and after the war. It's dark and powerful. He's extended the series into three or four others but I haven't had the chance to read those yet.
Can someone please explain to me what it means when they say "Hardboiled"? Thanks.
Ty,I think of it as "old-school" detective fiction - men in hats, not afraid to slap a dame to get the answer.
- Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe - hardboiled.
- Little old lady who solves
crimes with her Siamese cat
named Gulliver Niblets - not hardboiled
Another way to think of it - if you can imagine Robert Mitchum saying the words, then it is hardboiled. If not, not. I just can't imagine him reading Alice in Wonderland or something like that.
Jan C wrote: "Another way to think of it - if you can imagine Robert Mitchum saying the words, then it is hardboiled. If not, not. I just can't imagine him reading Alice in Wonderland or something like that."
Melki wrote: "Ty,
I think of it as "old-school" detective fiction - men in hats, not afraid to slap a dame to get the answer.
- Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe - hardboiled.
- Little old lady who solves
crime..."
Perfect descriptions! Thanks for the laugh this morning. :-)
Melki wrote: "Ty,
I think of it as "old-school" detective fiction - men in hats, not afraid to slap a dame to get the answer.
- Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe - hardboiled.
- Little old lady who solves
crime..."
Perfect descriptions! Thanks for the laugh this morning. :-)
I'll add my vote with Vince and Nancy, Ken Bruen's a vicious bastard with a keyboard. Although I lean more toward the Detective Brant series rather than the Jack Taylor stuff. Ken Bruen
Welcome im also big hardboiled fan. Good to see other fans like that here.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Doll Collection (other topics)Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem (other topics)
Rear Window and Three O'Clock (other topics)
Match Me Sidney!: The No Exit Press Crime Anthology (other topics)
The Bride Wore Black (other topics)
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Ken Bruen (other topics)Ken Bruen (other topics)
Jim Thompson (other topics)
Raymond Chandler (other topics)
Dashiell Hammett (other topics)
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