Monday 21 September 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY-EIGHT

The seemingly never ending task continues.....

Tub 48

Jack Kerouac, Gerald Seymour, Kingsley Amis, Horace McCoy, Mark Childress,

McCoy from the 50s

Jeff Abbott, Irvine Welsh, Malcolm Pryce, Charles Carillo, Donald Westlake,

Interesting looking book - Charles Carillo

Westlake standalone

Jo-Ann Goodwin, Chester Himes, John Colapinto, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Noah Boyd,

Tim Butcher, John Irving, David Peace, Donald Westlake, Chuck Hogan,

Eric Garcia, John Irving, John Trolan, Tonino Benacquista x 2

French author

More from Benacquista

Joseph Kanon, Tom Sharpe, C. J. Box, Malcolm Pryce, Clarence Cooper Jr.

Graham Greene chunkster

Bedtime reading to make your arms ache

Shane Maloney, John Harvey, Robert Newman
Peter James, Mark Timlin, Peter Rabe, Charles Williams, John Harvey

Early 60s pulp

David Morrell, Lorenzo Carcaterra x 2, Jonathan King, Joe Gores

Tub 48 put to bed


HIGHLIGHTS......... I'm looking forward to Benacquista's books when I get there, Charles Carillo also and John Trolan and Donald Westlake.

LOWLIGHTS........... I probably wouldn't buy Malcolm Pryce today as I didn't really enjoy the first from him...more fool me then! Peter James - why couldn't it be 150 pages shorter?

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
ABBOTT JEFF TRUST ME 2009
AMIS KINGSLEY LUCKY JIM 1954 JD1
BENACQUISTA TONINO HOLY SMOKE 2004 A1
BENACQUISTA TONINO FRAMED 2006 A2
BOX C. J. THREE WEEKS TO SAY GOODBYE 2008
BOYD NOAH THE BRICKLAYER 2010 SV1
BUTCHER TIM BLOOD RIVER 2007
CARCATERRA LORENZO CHASERS 2007 A2
CARCATERRA LORENZO GANGSTER 2001
CARILLO CHARLES MY RIDE WITH GUS 1996
CHILDRESS MARK CRAZY IN ALABAMA 1993
COLAPINTO JOHN ABOUT THE AUTHOR 2001
COOPER JR. CLARENCE BLACK 1997
GARCIA ERIC CASSANDRA FRENCH'S FINISHING SCHOOL FOR BOYS 2004
GOODWIN JO-ANN SWEET GUM 2006
GORES JOE HAMMETT 1975
GREENE GRAHAM THE HEART OF THE MATTER 1940
GREENE GRAHAM STAMBOUL TRAIN 1932
GREENE GRAHAM A BURNT-OUT CASE 1960
GREENE GRAHAM THE QUIET AMERICAN 1955
GREENE GRAHAM LOSER TAKES ALL 1955
GREENE GRAHAM THE POWER AND THE GLORY 1940
GREENE GRAHAM THE THIRD MAN 1950
HARVEY JOHN LIVING PROOF 1995 R7
HARVEY JOHN B. HART 3: TAGO 1980 H3
HIMES CHESTER RUN MAN RUN 1966
HOGAN CHUCK THE TOWN 2004
IRVING JOHN A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR 1998
IRVING JOHN LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER 2009
JAMES PETER DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS 2008 RG4
KANON JOSEPH THE GOOD GERMAN 2001
KEROUAC JACK ON THE ROAD 1957
KING JONATHON SHADOW MEN 2004 MF3
MALONEY SHANE SOMETHING FISHY 2002 MW5
MANCHETTE JEAN-PATRICK THREE TO KILL 2002
McCOY HORACE I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME 1951
MORRELL DAVID DOUBLE IMAGE 1998
NEWMAN ROBERT MANNERS 1998
PEACE DAVID THE DAMNED UTD 2006
PRYCE MALCOLM THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING IN ABERYSTWYTH 2005 LKM3
PRYCE MALCOLM LAST TANGO IN ABERYSTWYTH 2003 LKM2
RABE PETER THE BOX 1962
SEYMOUR GERALD THE DEALER AND THE DEAD 2010
SHARPE TOM WILT IN NOWHERE 2004 W4
TIMLIN MARK HEARTS OF STONE 1992 NS7
TROLAN JOHN ANY OTHER TIME 2000
WELSH IRVINE GLUE 2001
WESTLAKE DONALD SACRED MONSTER 1989
WESTLAKE DONALD DON'T ASK 1993 D8
WILLIAMS CHARLES AGROUND 1961

12 comments:

  1. Oh, I really hope you'll like the Benacquistas, Col. And I see you've several Westlakes, too, and some Himes - nice!! I thought the C.J. Box was very well done; it's a standalone that to me showed he can do both standalone and series quite well.

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    1. Margot - I am looking forward to Benacquista's books - I think these two are linked or at least they appear on Fantastic Fiction as a "loose series."
      I'll probably try the Box standalone before reading any of his series books.

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  2. Lots of good books there, Col. Gerald Seymour is very good. I’ve only read one Shane Maloney, NICE TRY, and need to catch up.

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    1. Elgin cheers. I have enjoyed the couple of Seymour's that I have tried. Only about 25 to go! At least Maloney hasn't written so much!

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  3. Oh, I envy you the Graham Greene omni in particular . . . assuming it's not one of those with tiny margins and tiny print. I really must get round to reading some more of his work.

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    1. I don't think the text is too bad, thankfully. That said I have just had new glasses, though by the time I get around to it they'll probably need changing again.

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  4. I want to read more Graham Greene also, but not in a huge volume. Glen wants to try the Malcolm Pryce series.

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    1. I think Greene will definitely be day time reading. I probably have some of the novels as single editions also.
      I didn't get over-excited when I read the first Malcolm Pryce book a few years ago. Maybe the second will be better, I hope so!

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  5. A very varied selection there. I have a lot of issues with Kingsley Amis, and his views, and his later work, but Lucky Jim is still one of the funniest books I have ever read. Are you getting near the end of this mammoth task?

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    1. I had two Kingsley books recommended to me. Bought them both and filed them away (a familiar tale eh?)....Lucky Jim and The Old Devils. What's so objectionable about him?
      Tub progress - maybe 90 total before I'm done, so 42 more weeks of this.....yawn..

      Then the kindle and the PDFs maybe.... could be another two years of my life I'll never get back

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  6. Col, Graham Greene is an author I have not read for a very long time. Those two John Irving titles look good and I'm going to look for them since I'm a fan of his work.

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    1. Ditto, it's been a few years since I read him myself.....and Irving I'm afraid,

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