--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joy Matkowski wrote:
>
> From Salon via Powell's, a review of the reissue
of
> Dorothy B. Hughes's The Blackbirder:
> http://www.powells.com/review/2004_08_27
>
> ******
> Thanks, Joy. Her RIDE THE PINK HORSE was
excellent.
> Even though it might have been a bit uneven, it
was
> intense, dark, and desperate. The movie was
good,
> too, but it deviated so far from the book that it
lost
> a lot of the look and feel.
>
> I've been trying to decide whether I want to read
her
> IN A LONELY PLACE or just watch the movie version.
As
> earlier noted on the list, a lot of great old
noir
> movies have come out on DVD here
recently.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Didn't we discuss one of DBH's books a couple years back
titled THE SO BLUE MARBLE? It was the one with the nasty
twins and even had a sci fi aspect. Thanks for the review on
this reissue. I enjoyed reading her fiction. She wrote a lot
of reviews, too, which I've quoted in my articles.
Ed Lynskey
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