Author Topic: Happy Birthday, Phoenix Dark!!!! (Read 6626 times)

Ichirou · « **Reply #60 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:05:31 AM »

I prefer Dashiell Hammett, though. I know Chandler's a more accomplished writer and his language is more beautiful, but I like the rough and crude style of Hammett. Probably why I prefer Maltese Falcon to The Big Sleep. Sam Spade's a much darker, amoral character than Marlowe.

Eric P · « **Reply #61 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:09:11 AM »

have you read Hammet's Continental Op Stories? Check those out. They're really good. My Favorite is probably Red Harvest because of the labor elements of the plot.

Ichirou · « **Reply #62 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:10:32 AM »

Yeah, I have the book that collects most of the Continental Op short stories as well as Red Harvest, which I initially read just to see where Kurosawa had ripped the plot off for Yojimbo.

Eric P · « **Reply #63 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:11:48 AM »

good stuff.

do you read any modern crime or have an interest?

Ichirou · « **Reply #64 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:14:13 AM »

I like some modern crime stuff...I love Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels.

Eric P · « **Reply #65 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:18:02 AM »

let me turn you onto an amazing anthology

http://www.murdalandmagazine.com/

Published twice yearly by lawyers out of Philly and Baltimore, it's amazing. It's neo-noir, dark and street level. I have an extra copy of the first issue. If you like I can dig it up and mail it to you.

Ichirou · « **Reply #66 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:21:44 AM »

Why is there a fatty on the cover $:-\$

That is not a femme fatale $:-\$

Eric P · « **Reply #67 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:28:58 AM »

it's a great shot though and really representative of baltimore.

but that's the level they're going for. the lead story in the first issue deals with revolutionary activity in an unnamed south american country while there's also a story called Scarecrow which is basically a horror story. It casts a wide net of awesome

Ichirou · « **Reply #68 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:30:55 AM »

I've actually always wanted to subscribe to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine but never quite got around to it.

Eric P · « **Reply #69 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:33:30 AM »

i was thinking about subscribing to Analog or Isaac Asimov's but never had. My parents got me a subscription to isaac asimov's decades ago which i loved, but lord only knows if it's any good now

Ichirou · « **Reply #70 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:34:54 AM »

I also wanted to subscribe to Omni (when I was a high school student, our library had a subscription) but it got cancelled before I ever had the chance.

Eric P · « **Reply #71 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:37:45 AM »

oh man, my dad has a subscription to omni i used to read the HELL out of that magazine. I went trolling for copies off ebay a few yeas ago and it still held up. my favorite section was the last page, which gave up "They're Made Out of Meat"

http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Ichirou · « **Reply #72 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:40:46 AM »

I never read that before. omg, that's great.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #73 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:46:47 AM »

i read that article when it was posted on the door of an employee's office, and i hated it because the dude was a creepy know-it-all who hasn't seen a real computer since the vax days

Ichirou · « **Reply #74 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:47:56 AM »

Sort of like you hating Borat sight unseen because the odious Miles "Smiles" Trahan was pimping it like crazy?

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #75 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:49:42 AM »

right on.

Ichirou · « **Reply #76 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:50:36 AM »

I was sick of The Departed before I even saw it. Fuckin' Shake.

Eric P · « **Reply #77 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:51:13 AM »

i still haven't seen borat. i don't feel comfortable watching people led into traps or acting obliviously stupid

Ichirou · « **Reply #78 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:53:05 AM »

I just watched an interview with some old redneck ladies talking about how they're gonna vote for Mike Huckabee 'cause they don't want a president who swears at his inauguration using a kohran instead of a bible (referring to Obama as "Osama" too). wtf

THAT is obliviously stupid.

Eric P · « **Reply #79 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:59:17 AM »

I'd give mike huckabee anything he wanted to avoid having to look him in the eyes

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Author Topic: Happy Birthday, Phoenix Dark!!!! (Read 6626 times)