The Rap Sheet: Reading Is Believing

Friday, September 12, 2008

Reading Is Believing

Other “forgotten books” being touted in the blogosphere today: Sir, You Bastard, by G.F. Newman; A Game for Heroes, by James Graham; Old Bones, by Aaron Elkins; The Blue Edge of Midnight, by Jonathon King; The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything, by John D. MacDonald; and--huh?--Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, by Ian Fleming.

In addition, forgotten books promoter Patti Abbott offers several suggestions in her own blog, including Death of a Red Mandarin, by Christopher West, and Dirty Snow, by Georges Simenon.

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“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity