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The
collected Bowdrie Dramatizations Vol. 1 by Louis L'Amour Filled
with Western conventions, where Bowdrie the Texas Ranger inevitably
gets knocked out or shot and at the mercy of the bad guys, and his two
fisted gunfighting skills pull him through...
Back to the Time Trap by Keith Laumer. This was a
hold-on-to-your hat scrambled time travel book, which gradually made
more sense as you read it, and had a satisfying conclusion...
Blast from the Past by K. Friedman. He manages to be
outrageous and funny and a decent who-dun-it author all at the same
time. I can't think of another novelist who uses real characters
like his famous such as Abbie Hoffman and not-so friends as
characters.
Klll
two Birds and Get Stoned by K. Friedman. This would be one
of his more serious novels, using the fourth wall convention to talk to
the reader about the book he's writing that resembles the book we're
reading... Two citizens of the world take the author under their
wing for some revolution for the hell of it. Apparently Friedman
never saw Paper Moon (which many Americans did) or he would've picked a
different con to start the story with...
Buck
Rogers in the 25th Century by Addison Steele This is the kind of
simplistic plot, written after Star Wars, of a classic serial, of the
sort that inspired A New Hope. It was good for putting me to
sleep...
The
Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter This novel has a
short half-life, since Washington legalized pot and one of its main
topics is a mid-life crisis guy getting into pot sales. I tried
reading it once before but quit since there are multiple downers in it,
but I stuck it through this time and felt like it was a bookend
for Citizen Vince, which was a criminal going over to the good
side.
The
Woodrow Wilson Dime by Jack Finney. This came in the mail
from someone that used my Little Free Library. It's from the
60's, and seemed like a Woody Allen movie, based on an alternate
universe and one man's romantic troubles...
Kickback
by Ace Atkins. He's really getting in the Robert Parker
groove, with a story as enjoyable as the orginals, and timely as well,
since it involves for profit prisons...
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