Book Details
| Title: |
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The Deep Blue Good-By |
| Author: |
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John D. MacDonald |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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04.18.13 |
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Notes History
| Date Read |
Note |
| 04.18.13 | Picked this up based on an interview with George Pelecanos. I always thought that I would like the old pulp novels and even have a pretty hefty collection of Hard Case Crime books that I've yet to dig into. Turns out I liked this one a lot. Knowing it was written and set in 1964 colored everything. Internally I heard Robert Evans narrating for me like The Kid Stays in the Picture. Every word oozed sunny hot sweaty Florida, masculine fuckrod testosterone, and snide social commentary. And for once the prose was hard-bitten enough to justfity character names like Chookie McCall. I'm not 100% sure I'll read the next 16 or whatever, but perhaps sooner or later I'll again dip into this worlds. Fun book. |
