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i am not really a regular detective novel reader, but i like more cynical noir stuff: jim thompson (the grifters, population 1280--pretty much anything); charles willeford, raymond chandler (of course--despite the detective-as-entrepreneur thing), chester himes (very interesting political stuff in his 40s hardboiled novels)...i'd second james elroy--i'd read his stuff in more or less chronological order, tho, because he strips his style down more and more as his work unfolded.
pete dexter's "paris trout" is very cool and kinda in a thompson mode.
best thing about these books is that they take about 2 hrs to read.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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