tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post1075853628637570632..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Friday's "Forgotten" Books (plus a Saturday addition): The Links and more...Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-26462613666187864342012-05-11T20:27:12.773-04:002012-05-11T20:27:12.773-04:00I, too, saw the movie version of SHATTERED. I thi...I, too, saw the movie version of SHATTERED. I think I picked it up for Berenger more than Scacchi. <br /><br />I recalled this movie the other day after a mention about how fax machines are becoming obsolete.Gerardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-28194011851225687482012-05-11T15:23:43.620-04:002012-05-11T15:23:43.620-04:00Didn't know if that was meant to be your FFB e...Didn't know if that was meant to be your FFB entry, Curtis...but it's up now. <br /><br />Waiting for yours and Sergio's, if any, Jerry...if it's tomorrow, or not till next week, that's what happens....<br /><br />There is a bit of a perverse thread that runs through Neely's fiction, though, George...Ed Gorman has put it in somewhat more Aristotlean terms, but it's there.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-32267969153185575712012-05-11T15:01:32.211-04:002012-05-11T15:01:32.211-04:00I did Part One of a two-part Edgar Box series. Ce...I did Part One of a two-part Edgar Box series. Certainly "Edgar Box" is a lot less "forgotten" than my choice for the series last week (I've only talked to one person who ever read Crime in Corn Weather). I thought I would mention, however, since I wasn't linked.<br /><br />http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/05/gore-y-death-edgar-box-detective-novels.htmlThe Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-4117187623850194802012-05-11T13:42:39.103-04:002012-05-11T13:42:39.103-04:00Hope to have mine up later today, perhaps very lat...Hope to have mine up later today, perhaps very later. THE HYPNOTIC EXPERIMENT OF DR. REEVES by Charotte Rosalys Jones.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-5958128343912222422012-05-11T11:22:49.530-04:002012-05-11T11:22:49.530-04:00The previous version of your comment fell into som...The previous version of your comment fell into some sort of hole, John, but your link is posted now.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36555345104747541732012-05-11T10:56:55.379-04:002012-05-11T10:56:55.379-04:00Was my previous comment eaten? Trying again. If i...Was my previous comment eaten? Trying again. If it's a dupe feel free to delete, Todd. My FFB contribution is <a href="http://prettysinister.blogspot.com/2012/05/secret-life-of-algernon-pendleton.html" rel="nofollow"> here</a>.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-52370690966701047572012-05-11T09:39:49.541-04:002012-05-11T09:39:49.541-04:00I read most of Richard Neely's books back in t...I read most of Richard Neely's books back in the Seventies. He could change styles the way most people change socks.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-50812139000286434312012-05-11T08:18:37.236-04:002012-05-11T08:18:37.236-04:00SHATTERED! I went to see that when it came out (I ...SHATTERED! I went to see that when it came out (I hesitate to say it's all coming back to me) and actually I rerember quite liking it - very decent cast of course (Bob Hoskins as a PI-pet shop owner as I recall). La Scacchi was stunning in that (and went on record as saying how much she disliked having to do the love scenes - she's right to be annoyed but it absolutely made the movie 100% more fun for me!)Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)http://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-3463758742354718752012-05-11T07:30:58.381-04:002012-05-11T07:30:58.381-04:00I stumbled across THE WALTER SYNDROME some years b...I stumbled across THE WALTER SYNDROME some years back, never having heard of Neely nor realizing he'd had a sustained career in suspense fiction (TWS is easily his best-distributed novel over here), and it is a fine novel (even if, like all Neely fiction, it's no more afraid to wallow than Jim Thompson's, and in a more tricksy and less disarmingly frank way). I'm not sure THE JAPANESE MISTRESS is the one to start up again with...the revelations, which I'm hesitant to post even in comments without Spoiler Warnings plastered all over them, do weaken the book considerably in some ways, and make it an interesting challenge to the reader in others...and THE PLASTIC NIGHTMARE has been redubbed SHATTERED for most latter-day editions in the States, after the rather fizzled film version (I attended that in a theater, one of perhaps a few tens of thousands at most, for Greta Scacchi at the time, not having heard of Neely's involvement)(and for Scacchi fans it was no A MAN IN LOVE nor THE COCA-COLA KID, nor even THE EBONY TOWER, another example of rather less annoying tricksiness on John Fowles's part, that time).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-74875992809586053942012-05-11T07:20:46.001-04:002012-05-11T07:20:46.001-04:00I haven't come across this one before Todd but...I haven't come across this one before Todd but you do make it sounds quite intriguing. I stared reading Neely with a tremendous rush of enthusiasm after finally finding a copy of THE WALTER SYNDROME, which is certainly a very tricksily plotted story (and by the sounds of things has a bit in common with this one too) and which I really liked. The same went for THE PLASTIC NIGHTMARE (I'm a total sucker for amnesia stories) - but then the next two, THE DAMNED INNOCENTS (aka DIRTY HANDS) and THE RIDGWAY WOMEN left me totally underwhelmed and I've never gone back. Perhaps time to give him another go - cheers!Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)http://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-32229324334702153842012-05-11T01:45:31.874-04:002012-05-11T01:45:31.874-04:00Thank you, Prashant!Thank you, Prashant!Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-62946064317824350742012-05-11T01:08:51.543-04:002012-05-11T01:08:51.543-04:00Todd, I posted my FFB a day earlier. It's a re...Todd, I posted my FFB a day earlier. It's a review of THIRD CLASS IN INDIAN RAILWAYS by Mahatma Gandhi. Thanks!Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.com