Jim Beaver wrote: I posted a few years ago my great pleasure
reading VIOLENT SATURDAY. I had liked the film version a lot
and read the book just hoping to recapture some of the feel
from the film, but I was quite wonderfully surprised with
Heath's writing and I've been intending to catch up on some
of his other work as well. So, miker, here's another (and
quite hearty) recommendation for VIOLENT SATURDAY.
********** Thanks, Jim. I've been trying to stay a month
ahead of decade we're covering, so I appreciate the
recommendation. I've got just a couple more that I want to
read in the 40s (for now), so I've been composing a tentative
list for the 50s and Al and Bill and you have taken a lot of
the guess work out of it. I've got a few waiting to be read,
like Chandler's LONG GOODBYE, Keene's LOVE ME AND DIE,
Williams's HOT SPOT, and Gil Brewer's WILD, but they aren't
long books and won't take long to read, so I need to get on
the stick and order some more. And no, all those authors
aren't new to me, but I've slackened off that just a bit. I
think JDM's CAPE FEAR was written during the 50s, and I've
got a copy of that and I haven't read a non-Travis JDM, so I
think I'll read it too.
Incidentally, when I finish Homes's BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH, I
will have completed another 20 new authors. WAHOOOO!
miker
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