I got a bit bogged down in December and just recently
ploughed through my backlog of list mail. Lots of interesting
reading! I will now resume sending out reminders about
trimming quoted text when replying, too!
I saw THE ICE HARVEST the day it came out and was
disappointed. Changing things is all right, bit they should
have changed John Cusack's character more: he's John Cusack,
so naturally we like him and want him to get the money and
all, but there's no denying he's a shady mob-connected lawyer
who ignores his children and hangs around strip joints all
day. Those don't go together. I wish they'd kept the original
setting and ending, but so it goes. A friend of mine refused
to see the movie because of Cusack and Harold Ramis (the
director), and held up a copy of Kent Harrington's DIA DE LOS
MUERTOS, saying "Maybe they can do this one next!"
There was some discussion of the Hard Case Stephen King when
it came out. It's neither hardboiled, nor noir, nor
interesting. I've enjoyed all the others I've read in that
line except for Max Phillips's FADE TO BLONDE, which I picked
up a few days ago and put down midway.
For some bizarre reason I'd never got around to reading DRAMA
CITY, the George Pelecanos novel from last year. I'm reading
it now, and I like it a lot. He's a fine writer, with an
assured touch.
That's about all the HB/noir reading I've done recently, but
I have stacks of other stuff to work through.
Cheers,
Bill
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