Adrian
31st May 2007, 11:32 AM
It seems to be a peculiarly American publishing maxim that states that every single non-fiction book has to have a colon in the title, so here goes: the full title of the book you are about to read is The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction.
[I think there's an unnecessary Oxford Comma in there but if that's how they do it over there, who am I to quibble?]
The author is apparently a well published author of novels, from 1970 to 1991. Here he has turned his eye to the genre at large, in what can be termed a well-chosen series of essays, commentaries, and reviews on the nature, style, and prose of predominantly American crimes writers from the Early Years, Golden age, and Modern Times of crime writing.
He didn't introduce me to any new authors, and there's a predominant leaning towards legal, courtroom, and lawlerly fiction that doesn't much appeal to me, myself, and I, but he puts across his love of the traditional, hardboiled, and old-school detectives really well, and makes me want to go buy Spillane, Willeford, and Cain by the yard.
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[I think there's an unnecessary Oxford Comma in there but if that's how they do it over there, who am I to quibble?]
The author is apparently a well published author of novels, from 1970 to 1991. Here he has turned his eye to the genre at large, in what can be termed a well-chosen series of essays, commentaries, and reviews on the nature, style, and prose of predominantly American crimes writers from the Early Years, Golden age, and Modern Times of crime writing.
He didn't introduce me to any new authors, and there's a predominant leaning towards legal, courtroom, and lawlerly fiction that doesn't much appeal to me, myself, and I, but he puts across his love of the traditional, hardboiled, and old-school detectives really well, and makes me want to go buy Spillane, Willeford, and Cain by the yard.
(All commas in this review have been reviewed by the comma comma comma extraneous comma and comma committee)