Detectives - the dominant characters of the 20th Century Discuss
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woops
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who, @william_kent ?
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Yeah, Carver credited Gordon Lish for his reputation.
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i ask cos you can sense the presence of that industrial nob-piercing sex-dungeon milieu plus a familarity with rap and reggae that suggest being a teenager in the eighties
woops
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anyway i made a couple of recommendations up thread which got lost so i'm gonna go into a bit more detail now, as i love a good private eye thriller and i thought these two were really special
Marc Bohm - The Eye of the Beholder
one of my favourite books ever, this is, as the blurb says, the private eye novel to end all private eye novels. the antihero is named the Eye. he trails a woman through every state of america with plenty of cold blooded murder along the way, but also a healthy dose of doomed romance in various dimensions. doesn't get better than this
Bukowski - Pulp
His last novel, dedicated to bad writing, basically a parody of private eye clichés BUT he also gets very literary while you're not looking. perfect late style plus it's actually funny, unlike 99% of books which are described as being so
@luka don't bother saying these are rubbish, i know you haven't read them
Marc Bohm - The Eye of the Beholder
one of my favourite books ever, this is, as the blurb says, the private eye novel to end all private eye novels. the antihero is named the Eye. he trails a woman through every state of america with plenty of cold blooded murder along the way, but also a healthy dose of doomed romance in various dimensions. doesn't get better than this
Bukowski - Pulp
His last novel, dedicated to bad writing, basically a parody of private eye clichés BUT he also gets very literary while you're not looking. perfect late style plus it's actually funny, unlike 99% of books which are described as being so
@luka don't bother saying these are rubbish, i know you haven't read them
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aka WYH, Martin and Kent.
luka
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and Eden and Danny...
woops
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this is one of your best ever insights. plus they all operate in a time when women wore red dresses, veils, pillbox hats, etc
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'Unquestionably one of the worst written books I’ve ever set eyeballs on. Cringey, forced “colloquial” dialogue made it unbearable. Imagine if Danny Dyer wrote a book over a weekend coked up. It’d be better than this.'
woops
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i'd love to check this out
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Steve Bruce, the football manager, has written some crime novels.
Steve Bruce: Inside the literary career of Newcastle manager
Steve Bruce - manager, player, crime writer?
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