tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post8263785849712375232..comments2024-03-28T08:51:47.164-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Friday's Forgotten Books, October 12, 2018pattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-80587823343673682202018-10-13T11:42:12.644-04:002018-10-13T11:42:12.644-04:00Forgot to mention, a friend told me about A Simple...Forgot to mention, a friend told me about A Simple Plan, and it sounded like something right up my alley, but I still haven't read it. As I recall the plot is reminiscent of <i>No Country for Old Men</i> and Robert Stone's <i>Dog Soldiers</i>.Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-89401264839944101812018-10-13T11:38:53.246-04:002018-10-13T11:38:53.246-04:00Never kept track until I started writing FFB revie...Never kept track until I started writing FFB reviews. I'm saving them all. From your list, Patti, I've read only the Hillermans (all of them), the Turow (most if not all) and the Mosley (several. I usually pick intuitively, and am often delighted to learn I've read something before. My memory is so porous the reread frequently seems like a first read. The older I get the more rereads there seem to be. Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-6180194204514404892018-10-13T07:30:20.977-04:002018-10-13T07:30:20.977-04:00I've been reading crime fiction for such a lon...I've been reading crime fiction for such a long time that I don't honestly think I could list exactly what I was reading. Hmm....that's good 'food for thought,' though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-40018613235015720762018-10-12T18:15:00.279-04:002018-10-12T18:15:00.279-04:00If you seriously want to know about what crime/mys...If you seriously want to know about what crime/mystery/suspense I read during the specified years, I can provide a list, but it'll be quite long and varied. <br /><br />Let me know one way or the other. Barry Erganghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04305184548497082776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-56661311613556482742018-10-12T16:26:26.403-04:002018-10-12T16:26:26.403-04:00Oddly enough I didn't start reading crime-fict...Oddly enough I didn't start reading crime-fiction novels in 1989, but stepped up the rate by some distance...started getting review copies from Warner/Mysterious Press, which didn't hurt any. I was definitely drawn to the McCone series by Muller, Donald Westlake, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, Sara Paretsky and others...that year I also went on jags of reading nearly every book Theodore Sturgeon and Kurt Vonnegut had published that I hadn't read already. Maggie Gee, William Kotzwinkle, collections by Dennis Etchison and Joe Lansdale. Stumbled across THE WALTER SYNDROME and so could talk a little about Richard Neely with Ed Gorman eventually. Kate Wilhelm's WELCOME, CHAOS.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-49025570756455609212018-10-12T14:20:12.228-04:002018-10-12T14:20:12.228-04:00I never had done the notebook thing, though I real...I never had done the notebook thing, though I really need to start. Kevin R. Tipplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170714419133752724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-80394329276663452422018-10-12T11:56:39.721-04:002018-10-12T11:56:39.721-04:00I did not start keeping track of my reading until ...I did not start keeping track of my reading until about 10 years ago.<br /><br />I was in college from '89-'93 and recreational reading was mostly paperbacks I found sitting around. I read AMERICAN PSYCHO after the furor over the content. I had reading time during the summers but may have just watched TV and listened to music. Gerard Saylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289822422163685990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-15147466101688126162018-10-12T11:08:45.653-04:002018-10-12T11:08:45.653-04:00I only kept one sporadically and I really regret t...I only kept one sporadically and I really regret that. It might save me from rereading now. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-51616602418966963982018-10-12T10:42:35.779-04:002018-10-12T10:42:35.779-04:00Kevin, I started keeping a notebook of every book ...Kevin, I started keeping a notebook of every book I read in the early 1970s, and I think it was May of 1975 I bought my first Year at a Glance calendar, which makes it easy to go bck to a specific time and see what I was reading, or doing in general. And I have separate books where I write down every book I finish, one fiction and one non fiction.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-81508235170701452192018-10-12T10:16:39.254-04:002018-10-12T10:16:39.254-04:00I have no idea. I was working on my Bachelors at U...I have no idea. I was working on my Bachelors at UTD in a double major of Literature and History, working nights and being a stay at home Dad daytime which was unheard of back then, and trying to survive. I know I read things beyond school stuff, but I have no idea what. <br /><br /><br />KevinKevin R. Tipplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170714419133752724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65472339720461655732018-10-12T09:49:37.653-04:002018-10-12T09:49:37.653-04:00Some good choices there - Robinson, Dexter, Hiller...Some good choices there - Robinson, Dexter, Hillerman, Rendell, Peter Dickinson.<br /><br />Let's see. Crime fiction, then.<br /><br />1989:<br />Westlake, THE OPERATOR (KILLING TIME)<br />John D. MacDonald, PALE GRAY FOR GUILT<br />Sue Grafton, "E" IS FOR EVIDENCE<br />John Mortimer, RUMPOLE AND THE AGE OF MIRACLES<br />Thomas H. Cook, SACRIFICIAL GROUND<br />1990:<br />Loren D. Estleman, ANGEL EYES<br />Karen Kijewski, KATWALK (a book I really disliked)<br />Ross Thomas, THE FOURTH DURANGO<br />John Dunning, LOOKING FOR GINGER NORTH<br />Simon Brett, MRS., PRESUMED DEAD<br />1991:<br />Bill Pronzini, SMALL FELONIES (shorts)<br />Len Deighton, SPY LINE<br />Bill Crider, DYING VOICES<br />Jim Thompson, A HELL OF A WOMAN (a Hell of an ending!)<br />Elmore Leonard, MAXIMUM BOB<br />1992:<br />Susan Rogers Cooper, THE MAN IN THE GREEN CHEVY<br />Wayne Dundee, THE BRUTAL BALLET<br />Gil Brewer, THE RED SCARF<br />Aaron Elkins, OLD BONES<br />SISTERS IN CRIME 4 (shorts)<br />Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.com