tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post6012272204059171269..comments2024-03-06T18:43:14.817+05:00Comments on Endless Falls Up: Fade to BlondeRay Garratyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771800826581349483noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-28705407270317263682014-04-19T11:04:50.117+06:002014-04-19T11:04:50.117+06:00Never heard of this author but would like to read ...Never heard of this author but would like to read him. Thanks for the review.neerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01986509319841061021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-64473762794454489262014-04-19T02:25:22.016+06:002014-04-19T02:25:22.016+06:00The Vengeance Man is heavily influenced by Jim Tho...The Vengeance Man is heavily influenced by Jim Thompson, I'd say. Good stuff.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-17551816130404774852014-04-16T01:00:29.166+06:002014-04-16T01:00:29.166+06:00I think I have The Vengeance Man of all his books....I think I have The Vengeance Man of all his books. I need to find it and read it. Ray Garratyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771800826581349483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-69864993056042072852014-04-16T00:44:55.368+06:002014-04-16T00:44:55.368+06:00He's pretty unfettered, at least in his early ...He's pretty unfettered, at least in his early books. He toned it down quite a bit later, when he basically transitioned into writing espionage novels. Only his crime fiction is worth going to any great trouble for, IMO. Of which I've read "The Name of the Game is Death" and "One Endless Hour". And they are decidedly not for pussies. Not as well written as Thompson's best work, but they are, if possible, even more outrageously inappropriate. <br /><br />Honestly, a girl asking a guy for a dollar to feel her boob would qualify as wholesome in those books. :)<br /><br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00271250698430923736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-75846487590700798452014-04-16T00:26:04.902+06:002014-04-16T00:26:04.902+06:00I haven't read Marlowe, but I believe he had p...I haven't read Marlowe, but I believe he had published HCs, but only in UK (and that doesn't count). Ray Garratyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771800826581349483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-38718991228444473882014-04-15T23:36:25.990+06:002014-04-15T23:36:25.990+06:00Hmm--are you perchance familiar with the work of D...Hmm--are you perchance familiar with the work of Dan J. Marlowe? <br /><br />I don't think he EVER had a hardcover published. If there was any censorship there, it's damned hard to see what it might have been.<br /><br />Paperbacks, I would have said, were more lurid and over-the-top than hardcovers, but it depends--after all, Lolita was a hardcover, but that was 'art'. And it aroused a thousand times more controversy than all the crime novels ever written. I think they tended to get away with stuff precisely because almost nobody took the genre as a whole seriously, regardless of binding. <br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00271250698430923736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-65774647287910749292014-04-15T22:20:52.694+06:002014-04-15T22:20:52.694+06:00Well, Thompson had three (?) hardcovers published....Well, Thompson had three (?) hardcovers published. That means he was half-serious, half-lightweight. Strangely in HCs writers were allowed to obscenities, PBs had more censorship. Ray Garratyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771800826581349483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040961017436764140.post-10177294940113513672014-04-15T21:30:17.203+06:002014-04-15T21:30:17.203+06:00Sounds interesting--not sure I'm philosophical...Sounds interesting--not sure I'm philosophically sympathetic to just writing a facsimile of an earlier style of crime fiction. But if you're going to do that, you certainly want to get published by Hard Case Crime. <br /><br />Pretty sure Jim Thompson talked about breasts, and his protagonists do more than just look at them--honestly, Jim Thompson is obscene by the standards of any era of fiction, anywhere in the world. I mean that as a sincere compliment. I do not want to live anywhere people aren't shocked by his stuff. <br /><br />Thanks for reviewing this. Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00271250698430923736noreply@blogger.com