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In Reply to: Does anyone like film noir? posted by edta on April 05, 2000 at 08:42:38:
you gotta read the book.
Or i'll plug ya! Seriously, i like film noir. But i love
the best detective writers with a passion. Raymond Chandler is Eric Clapton with a pen. There are many others, Early Autumn, Confederate dead in the electric mist (wow). Usually the first few books are the best. I also liked the guy whose main character is a Navaho cop; can't
remember his name. Carl Hiassen can be hysterically funny.
Hey, the name escapes me too, on the Navaho. And yes, it is geat fiction.I'm wondering, Raymond Chandler, could he be a bit dated, I mean the dialog, etc.? Maybe not. I'd like to get into reading again. I did find Hammett dated.
Carl Hiassen. Could you recommend his best one?
hi,
best suggestion: go to a library, or used bookstore, and just grab one.
hi,
Hammett does sound dated. You can get a Chandler from the library,
i love his skill with words.
Tony Hillerman writes the Navajo mysteries. James Lee Burke is good,too. I've read several of his books and haven't been disappointed yet.
Of course, Hillerman! Excellent stories! I confuse him with Kellerman, who I don't like that well.James Lee Burke, which is your favorite of his? I've never read him.
hi,
with most of these detective guys, it's best to start at the beginning; which is also usually their best work. Neon Rain is Burke's first book, and with him it makes sense to read them in order, as you are following Dave Robicheaux's fictional life.
If you were the guy asking about which carl Hiassen to start with, just pick one. Striptease was an awful movie, but one of the better Hiassen novels.
My wife just finished his new one, "Sick Puppy", and thinks it's pretty good, but not one of his best.
Not sure which of Burke's is my favorite. "Dixie City Jam" was the one I read first, and I really liked it. "A Morning for Flamingos" was another good one. The one mentioned by late, "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead", was also memorable and very enjoyable. Hard to go wrong, actually. Burke's dialogue and the way he captures the atmosphere of Louisiana is a real treat.It's been a while since I've read anything by him or any mysteries/cop fiction by anyone. I've been on a military fiction binge for a while, Bernard Cornwell's "Richard Sharpe" series(British army in the Napoleonic era) and now Alexander Kent's "Richard Bolitho" series(British Navy around the time of the American Revolution). I recommend both those series if your tastes in books run in that direction, too.
hi,
for some reason i couldn't recall Hillerman's name, i kept thinking of the Navaho artist Gorman. My favorite Burke will always be Confederate dead in the electric mist. And i only have one thing to say about it: wow.
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