Saturday, July 21, 2012

Harry Patterson aka Jack Higgins: Comes the Dark Stranger

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We were on a trip for over a week and my reading time was pretty limited, but I still managed to read a few books. One of them was an earl...
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The Returners: Matt Helm being reissued!

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I just learned today that Donald Hamilton's dark and brutal spy series with Matt Helm is going to be reprinted, starting from 2013. ...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Ridley Scott: Prometheus

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I've always liked the Alien movies and have a soft spot in my heart for almost each one of them. There's much to like even in Davi...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Friday's Forgotten Book: Hartley Howard: Put Out That Star

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There's not much info on  Hartley Howard , real name Horace Ognall, in the web. No one seems to be talking about his books. Still he was...
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Monday, July 09, 2012

Duane Swierczynski: Fun & Games

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I really liked Expiration Date which I read rather recently. I had been mildly disappointed in Severance Package , but Expiration Date was...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Lust in the Dust

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This movie has almost everything going for it: a seedy sex western with Divine in the lead as a bar-room singer, Tab Hunter as the male hero...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Friday's Forgotten Book: Bill Crider: Blood Marks

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Bill Crider, as you probably very well know, is a long-time crime, western and horror novelist who also maintains a popular blog. It's b...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: The Saint of Fort Washington

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The story of two homeless guys, played by Danny Glover and Matt Dillon, is shot quite well on location and there's realism not very usua...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Marxist Noir

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Very interesting interview with Alan Wald about the connections of American proletarian realism and hardboiled school of crime writing at th...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Duane Swierczynski: Expiration Date

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As the long-time readers of this blog well know, I've been a fan of Duane Swierczynski's writing almost from the start, ending up t...

Great opening lines

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Pawley watched the rain streak the dirty glass.  He liked the way the droplets started out small at the top, hung there for a moment, race...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Kevin Wignall: Alchemy

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I was away on a trip for over a week. We were in Sicily, in Cefalú to be exact, and travelled around the island for couple of times, in Pale...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Aviation magazine fresh off the printers

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This one-shot magazine that I've been trying to compile and edit for some years now is finally out. The title means "The Heaven of ...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Friday's Forgotten Book: Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Water

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I'm not sure if a Tom Ripley novel by Patricia Highsmith is forgotten, but they don't really seem to get the merit they deserve. The...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Tuesday's Ovelooked Film: Jacob's Ladder

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I saw this film by Adrian Lyne in 1991 or 1992 when it ran for a week in Tampere, the town where I was living at the time. I saw it twice, f...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Harlan Ellison: Web of the City

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Coming in April 2013.
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Ray Bradbury in Finland

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As I promised, here are some of the Finnish covers for Ray Bradbury's books. The Martian Chronicles as Marsin aikakirjat (literal ...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

My Ray Bradbury

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Don't get me wrong: I love The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 as much as anyone, but to me Bradbury means more as a horror writ...
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Monday, June 04, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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I was finally able to see this after reading about it some twenty-five years ago. I still haven't read George V. Higging's novel the...
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The Demars redux

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The Demars, the band my kid brother Matias and our cousin Juho had some dozen years ago, seems to have some renewed interest in them and the...