The Rap Sheet: Remembering More Forgottens

Friday, July 18, 2008

Remembering More Forgottens

Elsewhere in the blogosphere today, some of the “forgotten books” being fondly recalled are: Rafferty: Wrong Place, Wrong Time, by W. Glenn Duncan; Sleeping Dogs, by Thomas Perry; Honor Among Thieves, by Jeffrey Archer; Booked to Die, by John Dunning; A Dangerous Road, by Kris Nelscott; and The Hangmen of Sleepy Valley, by David Dresser. In addition, several titles are championed by authors on “forgotten books Friday” founder Patti Abbott’s own site, including Alistair Maclean’s HMS Ulysses and Iain Banks’ Complicity.

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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.”
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