George V. Higgins and co.

[luka]

got some pelecanos too. i'll give that a go at some point

 

[woops]

this is a character, but doesnt mean the books are any good

"it used to be that writers' lives were more interesting than their works. now neither their lives nor their works are interesting."

if you know where im quoting from then say cos ive forgot.

 

[luka]

got some pelecanos too. i'll give that a go at some point

this is so badly written that its making me feel grubby i dont know if i can bear to carry on. think its an early one so maybe he got better later on

 

[luka]

number one rule of these books is you never describe a male character without telling us his weight
eg woops, speccy 4 eyes, 6ft, 125 pounds, eyebrows that pursued an independent existence

 

[sufi]

https://archive.ph/HVmio what you make of this?
i enjoyed it

 

[luka]

it's very readable, also very cutesy in that new yorker way, they just can't help themselves that lot

When I wrote that Hoxha was lying when he said that the killer had been found, I did so on the assumption that Borukhova was telling the truth when she quoted him to that effect. Of course, this is an assumption I should not have made. Hoxha may never have uttered those words—Borukhova may have invented them. If witnesses abided by the oath to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” there wouldn’t be the contradictions between testimonies that give a trial its tense plot and the jury its task of deciding whom to believe. In his cross-examination of Hoxha, who testified at length for the prosecution, Scaring said harshly, “At the hospital, you accused her of killing her husband, didn’t you?,” and Hoxha said, “No.” Scaring went on, “You said, ‘If you admit you killed your husband it will go easy for you,’ didn’t you?,” and Hoxha again made a denial. Whom to believe, Hoxha or Borukhova? Padayesh or obraduesh?

 

[sufi]

it's very readable, also very cutesy in that new yorker way, they just can't help themselves that lot

When I wrote that Hoxha was lying when he said that the killer had been found, I did so on the assumption that Borukhova was telling the truth when she quoted him to that effect. Of course, this is an assumption I should not have made. Hoxha may never have uttered those words—Borukhova may have invented them. If witnesses abided by the oath to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” there wouldn’t be the contradictions between testimonies that give a trial its tense plot and the jury its task of deciding whom to believe. In his cross-examination of Hoxha, who testified at length for the prosecution, Scaring said harshly, “At the hospital, you accused her of killing her husband, didn’t you?,” and Hoxha said, “No.” Scaring went on, “You said, ‘If you admit you killed your husband it will go easy for you,’ didn’t you?,” and Hoxha again made a denial. Whom to believe, Hoxha or Borukhova? Padayesh or obraduesh?

yeah, oozing with that ny cosmopolitan style @craner would like it
true crimes

this one too:

Welcome to nginx!

“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm

From 1989: Part I of Malcolm’s seminal piece on the lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the writer he claimed had deceived him.

www.newyorker.com

journo psychodrama

 

[luka]

Then I did something I have never done before as a journalist. I meddled with the story I was reporting. I entered it as a character who could affect its plot. I picked up the phone and called Stephen Scaring’s office.

 

[woops]

Then I did something I have never done before as a journalist. I meddled with the story I was reporting. I entered it as a character who could affect its plot. I picked up the phone and called Stephen Scaring’s office.

dave gorman

 

[luka]

got some pelecanos too. i'll give that a go at some point

gave up on this. it was like a child wrote it. total shit. reading stick by elmore leonard 1983 now, much better.

 

[luka]

gave up on this. it was like a child wrote it. total shit. reading stick by elmore leonard 1983 now, much better.

finished this this afternoon, very slick light entertainment. enjoyed it.

 

[luka]

 

[luka]

reading the friends of eddie coyle now

 

[luka]

reading the friends of eddie coyle now

finisihed it. good book. much better than the elmore leonard. different class.

 

[woops]

higgens = peadoaf & probably, smokes weed.

 

[luka]

this was about the last i heard from edmund today. i've got a feeling he might be lying comatose in a urinal somewhere in the hollway area

 

[sus]

David Mamet

> For the past 30 years the greatest novelists writing in English have been genre writers: John le Carre, George Higgins and Patrick O'Brian.
>

The Humble Genre Novel, Sometimes Full of Genius - New York Times

For the past 30 years the greatest novelists writing in English have been genre writers: John le Carre, George Higgins and Patrick O'Brian.Each year, of course, found the press discovering some

web.archive.org

 

[IdleRich]

I read that book The Agent and I liked it a lot but it was completely different from what I expected it to be like.

 

[luka]

go on

 

[IdleRich]

I mean there was very little in the way of crime or mystery or any of that shit. Loads of dialogue about stuff that I basically don't give a flying shit about but which was still brilliant. Could have happily read his musings on being a sports agent for another few hundred pages... it rang true, maybe have been total bullshit, who cares, loved it.