Books read and other media of note |
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett A riveting novel that lurches through perceptual changes as the Continental detective tries to clean up a corrupt Montana town. The Affinity Bridge by George Mann Steam powered SF, or alternate history. The closest I've seen to this is the historical fantasies of Joan Aiken. In this case, a Victorian Britain with steam powered road trains and zeppelins and mechanical monsters. Hammett by Joe Gores Gores gets the feel of seamy 20's San Francisco, and captures the writer that changed the detective novel. With historical fiction you always wonder where the line is--after the curtain is down Gores separates fact and fiction. This is probably the best written Gores novel I've read, but it's not for the faint of heart. Gone, No Forwarding by Joe Gores A nice thing about the DKA, skip tracer novels is that they are an ensemble group of sleuths. The plots are also fairly complicated, and the solution contrived. There are also a lot of legal details in this one that probably make more sense to more worldly people than I. Still, I enjoy the ride... The Third Lynx by Timothy Zahn. Fun on the interstellar train system continues. The third lynx is a McGuffin--Hitchcock's term for what everybody wants, like the Maltese Falcon. The Big Burn by Timothy Egan. The history of the beginnings of the American conservation movement, through the lense of the huge forest fire of 1910, and the fledgling Forest Service that tried to fight it, and Teddy Roosevelt's and Gifford Pinchot's efforts to preserve our national heritage lands. Fine reading... Blood Rites by Jim Butcher These aren't the kind of vampires the teenage girls rave over--lots of nastiness and evil fighting by the generally down but never out Harry Dresden. |
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