Let us also not forget the oldies
Elmore Leonard - classic western, gangster etc pulp still going strong
Years back - g.a henty, george manville fenn, harrie irving hancock (west point
and annapolis series) ...
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srs (blackberry)
Yes indeed
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Hal and Roger were Willard Price right?
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Hal and Roger were Willard Price right?
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Biju Chacko [31/
thew...@gmail.com [31/01/12 06:22 +]:
My current favorite mindless thriller writers:
1. James Rollins.
add lee child's jack reacher books.
but you can only read so many books about a strong silent highly trained
killer type who always gets to make love to a woman he's met for maybe a
few
Biju Chacko [31/01/12 11:23 +0530]:
I've read a few of those, mostly when I was in school. Speaking of
savages, have you read any Doc Savage novels?
some. ages back - and those hal and roger novels about collecting animals
for a zoo. and richmal crompton's william series though they arent pulp.
Thejaswi Udupa [31/01/12 11:32 +0530]:
Aside - KQA's annual quiz on speculative fiction, 'Chronosynclastic
Infundibulum' is on this Saturday (2pm at IAT, Queens Road). Since the
interest in SFF is higher on this group than outside, I humbly suggest
that you all teleport your selves to the quiz at
My current favorite mindless thriller writers:
1. James Rollins.
2. Scott Mariani
3. Mathew Reilly (his earlier books like Temple and Contest are masterpieces.
Later work has tapered off.
-Lahar
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On 1/31/12, Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>> On 30-Jan-12 8:18 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote:
>>
>>> Have almost every L'Amour book. Never got around to JT Edson.
>>> How does their writing quality/style compare?
>>
>> Louis L'Amour is a far better writer
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:38, Biju Chacko wrote:
> My list would include Clive Cussler, David Eddings and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
+1 for Clive Cussler :-)
~ash
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> Speaking of
> savages, have you read any Doc Savage novels?
My favourite Doc Savage books are those written by Philip Jose Farmer
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
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> Does anybody else have any other guilty pleasures (of the literary
> kind) they'd ... um... recommend (if that's the word).
Deathworld, and Bill the Galactic Hero books by Harry Harrison, Brian
Lumley's Necroscope books, any old Astounding/
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
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> Biju Chacko [31/01/12 11:08 +0530]:
>
>> Does anybody else have any other guilty pleasures (of the literary
>> kind) they'd ... um... recommend (if that's the word).
>>
>> My list would include Clive Cussler, David Eddings and Edgar
On 31-Jan-12 11:08 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> Does anybody else have any other guilty pleasures (of the literary
> kind) they'd ... um... recommend (if that's the word).
This is an irresistible straight line [1] to recommend the Anita Blake
series [2]. I hasten to add that books in this series afte
Biju Chacko [31/01/12 11:08 +0530]:
Does anybody else have any other guilty pleasures (of the literary
kind) they'd ... um... recommend (if that's the word).
My list would include Clive Cussler, David Eddings and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
eddings and erb were again very good. tight though stereoty
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On 30-Jan-12 8:18 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote:
>
>> Have almost every L'Amour book. Never got around to JT Edson.
>> How does their writing quality/style compare?
>
> Louis L'Amour is a far better writer than Edson - but for some reason,
> Eds
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym
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> I eagerly await further news from Google, but my hunch is that a local
> Kenya Google office, steeped in "traditional" Kenyan business practices,
> decided to go down this route (and it's not the screen-scraping that's
> the issue, it's th
> >
> > Strange world.
> >
> > shiv
> >
> A few years ago I was in California on business. My wife was in the
> hospital in Massachusetts, two of my three (adult) children were very
> seriously ill, and I had a million other worries, personal and
> financial. It was in this context that I found one
Yes. Bunduki was the grandson of tarzan, and a lot of real and fictional
characters - such as edgar wallace's four just men and jg reeder - appear in
edson's books
He loved philip jose farmer's wold newton theory, that man
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Did Edson also write some vaguely Flash Gordon/ outer space stuff? I remember a
Great White Hunter called Bunduki. My favorite, though, were the Dusty Fog
series. Much better than the Brad Counter/ Ole Devil series.
-Lahar
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Even the later MacLeans were somewhat readable. The later Edsons weren't - I
wouldn't even borrow them from a library.
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Or Alistair MacLeans?
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His earlier w
His earlier works are very good pulp - tightly plotted, fast moving, lots of
(not particularly accurate, but believable) detail ..
The later ones had frayed plots, filled up with verbose recycling of character
backgrounds and random right wing rants, not to mention very badly written sex
..
K
On 30-Jan-12 8:18 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote:
> Have almost every L'Amour book. Never got around to JT Edson.
> How does their writing quality/style compare?
Louis L'Amour is a far better writer than Edson - but for some reason,
Edson's earlier works are a guilty pleasure for several people, myself
Edson is mcdonalds to l'amours deli pastrami
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On Jan 30, 2012, at 5:15 AM, ss wrote:
>
> Sounds like something out of Douglas Adams, or the Mahabharata.
>
> It turns out that a man in Kolkata or Bhopal (or was it Rajnandgaon?) went
> to an ATM to withdraw the equivalent of US$ 100 and got an acknowledgement
> slip telling him that his
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan <
chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <
> sur...@hserus.net> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have these around - especially the older ones from the 1960s
>>
>>
> Had a few Dusty Fog
On Monday 30 Jan 2012 9:22:12 am John Sundman wrote:
> disconcerting to try to straighten out a matter of a payment that has been
> made but not properly credited to my account when the possible loss of my
> home is at stake, with a person who does not understand what I'm saying,
> whom I must stru
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