Mark Sullivan wrote:
> If you like the first, you'll probably like them
all. Kantner started
> very good and got even better. By the time he got
to, say, Thousand
> Yard Stare, his muscle car firing on all
cylinders.
************ OK. Talked me into it. Man, I love Abebooks. The
books are cheaper than the shipping.
I finished Didion's PLAY IT AS IT LAYS. Pretty damn good. I
couldn't find the Pauline Kael review for the movie that
Chris recommended, but I did find another long essay on
Didion. The basic premise was that the book is invalid
because rich and beautiful people don't have a right to be
miserable. It sounded pretty convincing but I have some
reservations.
Just got a book called THE PARADISE EATER, by John Ralston
Saul. Somehow I ended up looking at a book called BANGKOK 8
on Amazon and one of the reviews recommended this one
instead. I was pleased to find out the writer is Canadian,
since I've been reading Canadian hardboiled too.
miker
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