Spent some time at the local Barnes and Noble bookstore last
weekend and found some interesting things. The BEST AMERICAN
MYSTERY STORIES OF 2004 has a story by Dick Lochte entitled
"Low Tide." He's sandwiched inbetween a Stephen King story
and another by Joyce Carol Oates. You're keeping damn good
company there, Dick.
The discount section had THE WORLD AS A LIE, a biography of
James Dickey. I read a review of this book a long while back.
There was a long chapter in it on DELIVERANCE, and I read
some of that with interest.
In the last couple years I've bought a lot more books than
I've read, so here recently I've been pretty much in a
no-book buying mode. But I found a display with the novel
OUT, by Natsuo Kirino. I had never heard of it or her, but
after reading the blurbs I bought it. I'm glad I did. It's
good. I'm about a hundred pages into it. Wicked and
dark.
I finished Macdonald's BLACK MONEY. There's a psychological
undercurrent to the book that subverts Archer's compassion
and concerns with the troubles of the characters, a very ugly
streak of misanthropy that runs far deeper than just about
any noir I can think of.
miker
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