I watched the movie for an American mystery class in college. I bought the book in an omnibus for that class as well, but reading this particular book was not one of the requirements, so I just now got around to it.If I recall correctly, the background events are completely different between the boo...
From Casual Debris. A minor anecdote in history, the marathon dances of the 1930s, proves to be an appropriate setting through for examining the individual's place in the world. Having worked in such a setting, Horace McCoy makes vivid not only the torturous experiences of the event, but helps to ...
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What can you say about a book this good? For $25 you get 6, count 'em 6 of the very best classic American noir novels of all time: The Postman Always Rings Twice; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Thieves Like Us; The Big Clock; Nightmare Alley; and I Married a Dead Man. All this with a real cloth-...
There's only one horse in this book and the poor thing only gets half a page of story in which it also unfortunately gets shot - personally, I think this is the one moving bit of the novel and perhaps [b:They Shoot Horses, Don't They?|152052|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?|Horace McCoy|http://d202m5k...
Robert and Gloria enter a marathon dance contest with $1000 as the top prize. Too bad Gloria thinks about death more than winning...Horace McCoy is bleak enough to be one of Jim Thompson's drinking buddies. This tale is really slim but also kind of exhausting. McCoy's depiction of a dance contest...
- Le couple 22 est pris de crampe, dit Rollo dans le micro. Tenez-vous prêts, les soigneurs...- Détends ta jambe, fit Rollo.Je donnai un coup de pied sur le plancher, mais la douleur s'accentua encore.- Détends ta jambe, détends ta jambe!- Espèce d'emmerdeur, dis-je, ma jambe me fait mal...- Jamais ...
Moral: Hollywood is bad for people, but Hemingway is worse.
I'm particularly curious about Cornell Woolrich, whom I've never read.***I've been meaning to read "I Married a Dead Man" since 96 or something, because I watched "Mrs. Winterbourne" every time it appeared on cable for a month.Wow. This is freaking fabulous. Woolrich manages to strike exactly the ri...
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