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Bezig met laden... Maybe I Should Just Shoot You In The Facedoor Mark Krajnak (Illustrator)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a short, snappy and sometimes savage collection of neo-noir, although not all of the seven stories truly fall into that category. Some lean more towards the mysterious than the genre’s typically bleak and brutal tales of despair and moral destruction. For instance, ‘Once Upon A Time In The Woods’ mixes urban crime with mystical whimsy in a delightful which caught me completely off guard. Others, like ‘Give A Good Day’ are not so much complete stories, more like slices of misery taken from the carcass of the human condition and stained on a slide for us to inspect under a microscope. If that sounds just a touch too miserable for you then be assured that not all of these finely-honed episodes conform to that oldest noir convention – the unhappy ending. ‘Last Exit’ at least offers a glimmer of redemption, of a future after the awfulness has ended. There's more detail about the stories over at: https://murdermayhemandmore.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/maybe-i-should-just-shoot-y... Of the seven stories, there was only one which I didn’t enjoy; not a bad batting average. However, this anthology didn’t last very long. It’s neatly put together and the different voices are well suited so that they overlap without repeating, but even so it was gone in under two hours. Still, it’s stunning value for less than a quid. You rarely get such high quality entertainment at that kind of price. 8/10 geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Zelmer Pulp is back with two new members rounding out the original fold. This, their first collection of noir and crime, rolls through gritty side streets and dark alleys as it highlights the underbelly of what men can do. Photographer Mark Krajnak complimented each story with a black and white picture from his professional collection of work. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Chris Leek's "Last Exit" is a magnificent piece about a guy who recalls that Kelly had been his one shot at happily ever after and now she was gone and all the new day brings is more dive bars and dead ends. "Omega Man" by Benoit Lelievre sounds like a mid-70's thriller movie, but it is a story about things that are too great too last like Briana and the narrator's campaign to win her back. "Give A Good Day" is Isaac Kirkman's short painful prose about a city where the roadsides are littered with crucifixes and bullet holes and discolored plastic flowers. "Once Upon A Time In The Woods" is Panowich's story about kidnapping and crazy squirrels. Regan's "Taking Flesh" is about the dangerousness of carnivals, teenagers, and photography. Sparks' "Lazarus, Come Forth" is about a gun, a waitress in a strip club, retirement, and Hungarian gangsters. Sayles' "The Roach Motel" is about finding your target as you walk through the hell that comes beyond hell and what you find at a bar filled with ones who are going straight to hell. There is not one story in this set that is not worth reading more than once. ( )