Alec
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“Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
Alec’s 2024 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Paranormal, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, adventure, pirates, westerns, steampunk, weird-west, historical-fantasy, urban-fantasy, pulp, noir, hard-boiled, science-fiction-fantasy, military-science-fiction, sword-and-sorcery, humor, comedy, short-stories, and folklore
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