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Pulp | Ed Brubaker

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Let me just state this up-front. Ed Brubaker is the absolute best crime fiction writer in comics today.
This story centers on an elderly writer in 1930's New York, whose pulp stories are true events from his secret past as an outlaw in the Wild West. He must now use his gritty experiences to help fight an encroaching darkness in the present. Short, but like an arrow hitting a target dead on, this is certainly worth the ride.

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Three Bladed Doom | Robert E Howard

For Lancashire, it's a sweltering day & I'm feeling a sense of desert heat reading this pulp adventure novella about Francis Xavier Gordon, known as El Borak "The Swift", amongst the cities, villages and encampments of the Near & Middle East.
The milieu is the Great Game played by the Western colonial powers, & while Gordon is a maverick with little time for bureaucracy, his loyalties lie with them.
There's a definite whiff of Yellow Peril ⬇️

Bookwomble ... about the secret society & hidden city of assassins that Gordon seeks to infiltrate, & every character, however minor, is identified by his (no women so far) supposed racial origin. That Howard uses that contemporary understanding of race, history & politics as narrative colour rather than polemic is a relief. These are the pulp stories that feed into Indiana Jones, Uncharted, etc: rollicking juvenile fun if they're not taken too seriously. 8mo

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bunneeboy

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories | Otto Penzler

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These stories are a stone cold blast!

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Money Shot | Christa Faust

Eventually, morning came instead of bad guys. That was the thing about mornings. No matter how fucked up your life got, how deep and black your despair, how sure you were that you just couldn‘t take another second of this shit, morning just kept on coming. Over and over. Morning didn‘t give a damn about your little drama.

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Octoberwoman

No Nice Girl | Perry Lindsay

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!) Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2023

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The Fu Manchu Omnibus: Volume 1 | Sax Rohmer

#TitlesAndTunes #GuiltyPleasures
Sax Rohmer's adventure thrillers are a guilty pleasure due to their racism and Rohmer's journalistic role in contributing to the racist trope of "The Yellow Peril". His best-known creation is criminal mastermind / anti-colonial patriot, Dr. Fu Manchu. Less well-known is his female counterpart, Sumuru.
Tunes are Desmond Dekker's Fu Manchu, and the original China Girl by Iggy Pop, both of which I love without guilt!

Bookwomble @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB 2y

Bookwomble Desmond Dekker: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Zi3RnDhpNzcEnw6MLaU15?si=3axQEB2bQn670jgMCHsfpg 2y

Bookwomble Iggy Pop: https://open.spotify.com/track/5nB8x0jxofKalTtaQLpGZL?si=-9eGPk9TRyW54RNxOaSvjA 2y

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dabbe My roommate in college (back in--gulp--1983) had a 90-minute cassette tape (45 minutes each side) with only “China Girl.“ She played it over and over and over and over ... to this day when I hear it, my hair literally stands on end. Love David Bowie, though! 🤣🤣🤣 2y

Bookwomble @dabbe And your roommate is now my wife! 😮 (Well, perhaps not 😂). David wrote the music for Iggy Pop's original version, Iggy improvising the lyrics about a failed love affair he'd just come out of. As might be expected, the Iggy version is more raw than David's - I love them both ♥️👨🏻‍🎤🧑🏻‍🎤 2y

dabbe @Bookwomble My hubby ADORES Iggy Pop; me, too! Both are just out of the universe. 💚💙💚 If your wife's name is Brenda, then she is the one! 🤣🤣🤣 2y

Cinfhen I never knew Iggy Pop had the original version 🫢 #LiveAndLearn 2y

Bookwomble @dabbe Brenda?! Brenda Bookwomble? A-no! 😄 Iggy is manically fabulous 🦎😊 2y

Bookwomble @Cinfhen David and Iggy recorded it for the latter's "The Idiot" album while they were in Berlin. Iggy was having some financial problems a few years later, so David included the song on his "Let's Dance" album to earn Iggy some royalties. 2y

Rissreadswithcats Love that story! ♥️ 2y

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