> I finally read a book on the list and find I was in a
group of one.
Mario read it too, and I think Bill's reading it now
(suffering undue
eyeballing on the bus too, one imagines from the frequency of
references
to bus travel in Bill's most recent posts), so you're not
alone ...
also, I managed to cop a copy--from the biography section--of
the local
library yesterday, so I'll post some comments in a day or
five.
Mario's recent reference to Frank Gruber's _Pulp Jungle_
inspired me to
pull my copy of the shelf. I've dipped into this in the past,
but not
really read it through. I'm about half way through at the
moment, and
enjoying it. It's a very easy read, and quite compelling, as
Gruber
takes us around NY of the 1930s: to the automat for 'automat
soup', and
to the offices of the pulp editors, while attempting to avoid
the
manager of the 45th Street Hotel.
Back to Sandra on _Pimp_:
> Like climbing to the top of a dung pile. You might
have a view of
> a better life but it still stinks where you're
at.
<g>
ED
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