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New Review: Death on the Riviera by John Bude - the thumbnail on this page is wrong because I had to fix some problems with two previous reviews
Today we publish two new pages related to Raymond Chandler, the master of hardboiled detective fiction. Available is my review of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep, as well as Michael Duffy's latest contribution to the Great Writers project on this site, his profile and 'interview' with Raymond Chandler
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New Review: The third book in the Bella Greaves series, The Man in Black by Michael Duffy
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New Review: The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green (a precursor to the Golden Age of Crime)
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"Read dem dope ass books because one day u won't be able to." - Socrates
Just read your latest blog post. I think articles like the one you mentioned can definitely be reactionary and alarmist. Was there really a golden age of reading? Or did most people just read pulp lit when they couldn't access a TV? Idk, maybe we are doomed...
I need to make a survivalist fort to protect all my books for when the apocalypse arrives. And guns! I need guns to protect them!
MORE GUNS
As a kid, the only books I would read were non-fiction, until I got to around 10, or 11, and then I started reading actual novels. Now, I read more novels than non-fiction, but a lot of it is down to what's available - as a kid, there was a lot more natural history books and stuff on animals around that were written for general readers that weren't nature diaries or textbooks - I don't mind text books but it's heavy
reading and I don't like nature diaries because most of the time, they are more about the author than they are about nature. As a result, I end up reading more fiction... As I read a lot of genre fiction, I tend not to judge it - reading is reading and some books are better written than others, but it shouldn't matter as long as people read and they enjoy it.