tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post3723500280322944135..comments2024-02-14T03:20:23.057-08:00Comments on Pop Sensation: New Adventures in Kiwi BookstoresRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-85441195218152450892012-07-30T18:57:04.414-07:002012-07-30T18:57:04.414-07:00Hi,
I'm the editor for the Books section on B...Hi,<br /><br />I'm the editor for the Books section on Before It's News, and I came across your website Pop Sensation. <br /><br />We'd love to republish your RSS feed on our site, with a description of your blog and link back to your website. You'd benefit from having some of our millions of readers see your posts and go through to your blog.<br /><br />Let me know if this sounds like something you're interested in!<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Sebastian Clouth<br />SClouth@beforeitsnews.comSebastian Clouthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18144017863384270577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-90649000386397883942012-07-29T12:42:12.937-07:002012-07-29T12:42:12.937-07:00Thanks for the clarification, McClaverty. After re...Thanks for the clarification, McClaverty. After reading Romney and the American press's attacks of the British preparations for the Olympics, I thought this would be a (justified) continuation of embarrassments this week. <br />Still, he was never referred to as "Jimmy" Bond on the right side of the Pond, was he?Keirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17780519140837852601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-22882843604582506812012-07-29T07:55:01.675-07:002012-07-29T07:55:01.675-07:00If he's got "A Gun In My Hand", he r...If he's got "A Gun In My Hand", he really ought to specify which hand. If it's his left, ok it's a gun. If it's his right hand, it's a "gun".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-35790605610466792752012-07-27T23:43:57.464-07:002012-07-27T23:43:57.464-07:00The book Trouble Is My Business is a collection of...The book <i>Trouble Is My Business</i> is a collection of Chandler's early shorts from his Black Mask days... pre-Marlowe. John Dalmas was one of his early detectives, and there were others. The names were changed to Marlowe in some later printings, and many of these early stories were 'cannibalized' (Chandler's word) to produce the Marlowe novels.<br /><br />From the introduction to the collection <i>Killer in the Rain</i>:<br />"When Chandler published “Killer in the Rain,” his fourth story, in 1935, he was still experimenting with his principal character, a nameless first person narrator. In the next of these three stories the detective operated under the name of Carmady, and in the following three he was John Dalmas. By 1941 in “No Crime in the Mountains” he appeared as John Evans, but in the meantime he had become the Philip Marlowe of Chandler’s novels."McClavertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-57118756166437944662012-07-26T12:51:44.953-07:002012-07-26T12:51:44.953-07:00Gordon Slatter died just a month ago at the age of...Gordon Slatter died just a month ago at the age of 90. <i>The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature</i> offers a good description of <i>A Gun in His Hand</i>:<br /><br /><i>His first book, the novel A Gun in My Hand (1959), went through five impressions within a year in New Zealand and UK. It is a psychological thriller, the stream-of-consciousness one-day odyssey of a disillusioned man revisiting his Christchurch past, vainly bent on resolving the guilt he carries from traumatic war experiences. This present-day action, which builds a Joycean picture of Christchurch and includes pub scenes unmatched in raw realism until Alan Duff, is intercut with extraordinarily vivid fragments of memory from the New Zealand Division's Italian campaign of 1945 and from work experience on the wharves, on farms, in the freezing works, and elsewhere. The overall effect is an intensely painful imaginative rendering of the life and consciousness of the generation of New Zealand males that endured World War 2 and its long aftermath.</i>Patrick Murthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103905929956454199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-26726042513886188322012-07-26T12:45:31.171-07:002012-07-26T12:45:31.171-07:00I have a set of Chandler books published by the Fo...I have a set of Chandler books published by the Folio Society of London. They retained the Philip Marlowe name but "corrected" a bunch of other stuff. The only one I remember off the top of my head is where Marlowe used the "lift" to go up to the first floor, but there were others. Pretty jarring!<br /><br />When I read British authors I don't want them "translated" into American, either. Can you imagine Murder on the Poughkeepsie Express?Titus Groanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14632029785458036525noreply@blogger.com