http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/ Not Necessarily Hardboiled Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:11:01 GMT Brian K http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10110 Katherine Heigl to Play Stephanie Plum in Film Adaptation of Bestselling Books of Janet Evanovich http://www.shoppingblog.com/blog/209109 Brian Kavanagh Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:46:56 GMT eastlandwestvalleymoon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10109 We loved his Bertie Wooster too although the new team are great. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:38:57 GMT eastlandwestvalleymoon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10108 Feb. 08, 2010 British Comic Actor Ian Carmichael Dies At 89 Ian Carmichael, Who Played Bertie Wooster And Lord Peter Wimsey On Screen, Dies At 89 (AP) LONDON Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:05:33 GMT katedirect http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10107 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10107 'Best' can mean best, of course: best written, most complex yet coherent plotting, and/or most original. However, I give major points for making dull material Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:03:02 GMT katedirect http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10106 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10106 38. The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly 39. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy 40. Killer Instinct, Joseph Finder 41. Scavenger, David Morrell 42. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:32:18 GMT spydersncowboys http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10105 Vicious Circle review from Booklist: Littell's latest brainy thriller probes very near the heart of the time-worn conflict over a land made and kept holy Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:26:27 GMT bridgewaymarcola http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10104 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10104 Curious how some writers influence all genres and others just as extraordinary do not. In Salinger's case because he was banned and therefore read widely? Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:05:22 GMT Robert Focht http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10103 Anyone have a review/opinion on The Vicious Circle and/or The Secret Servant ? ... -- DLI Alumni & Friends Community at http://www.dliflc.org [Non-text Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:13:54 GMT katedirect http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10102 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10102 ...ending a few months from now, technically LOL 31. The Guards, Ken Bruen 32. Master of the Delta, Thomas H. Cook 33. The Secret Servant, Daniel Silva 34. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:08:46 GMT katedirect http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10101 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10101 Reclusive US novelist J.D. Salinger dies at 91 NEW YORK (AFP) ? J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," has died at 91, his agent Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:42:05 GMT zintintinlosangelescalif http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10100 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10100 RIP also J D Salinger Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:38:23 GMT zintintinlosangelescalif http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10099 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10099 Agreed! Wonder what the secret signal would be? Must be inspired from some Poe paragraph describing a grave site? Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:53:59 GMT rongrauvega47 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10098 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10098 Love Franks he is a man after my own heart http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_on_re_us/us_poe_mystery_visitor Mystery visitor to Poe's grave is a no-show Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:50:04 GMT rongrauvega47 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10097 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10097 If books make it to translation they are bound to be better overall. Readers figures this out after awhile. ;) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:34:15 GMT harriettvanedalgleish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10096 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notnecessarilyhardboiled/message/10096 Yes, he was a writer of his time. Impact of his first novels lost after all these years but they were very entertaining and fairly gritty compared to the norm.