Day Three Hundred and Eighteen

November 15th, 2008 by Amanda

I finished The Dain Curse and started The Glass Key. I’m so over hardboiled crime. Chandler was a bit more powerful stylistically but both Chandler and Hammett are apparently completely indifferent to human life. Body after body piles up and, well, blech! I wonder if modern mystery stories have this high a body count though I’m sure the cool language used to describe the deaths is unique to these older, noir, mysteries.

I’m anxious to get back to some serious classics. Huck Finn is up for book club and I’ve still got The Republic and Lao Tzu waiting for me. Yay!

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2 Responses to “Day Three Hundred and Eighteen”

  1. Mary Beth Says:
    November 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Hooray! I’ve read Huck Finn fairly recently. Maybe we’ll defy the odds and all be there this time.

  2. bybee Says:
    November 16th, 2008 at 3:37 am

    There’s a book called Finn that I want to read, so I’ll have to read Huck Finn again, first. It’s been a while.

 

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