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Paul Dabrowski
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“Obsessive and easily bored, he was incapable of being sexually faithful to any woman. He reveled in being a wanderer, an eavesdropper, a stranger”
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
“L.A. was the John Wayne Gacy of cities, smothering its children with a toxic beach towel of poisoned air, mindless growth, and bad values.”
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“We tolerate difference only when we don’t have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn’t impact our lives.”
― Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
― Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
“Walter Jelinek was a man, but he looked like a car, the kind of old junker car that had been in some bad accidents so that now the frame is bent, the wheels don’t line up any more, the whole vehicle sags to one side and pulls to that side, and the brakes are oatmeal.”
― Breakout
― Breakout
“hedonism and amorality. And remember, he who cannot give anything away, cannot feel anything either.”
― Strange Flesh
― Strange Flesh
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
Hardboiled American Crime and Worldwide Noir Fiction
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Started somewhat as a reaction to the British cozy mystery of the Agatha Christie style (think Murder She Wrote), there came a demand for something mo ...more
Pulp Fiction
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Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
Paul ’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel
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