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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mmmmm, read this in 2 days, extremely rare for me. First book I read by Willeford, going for more without a doubt. Published in '55, story about lonelyness, love, hopelessness - the usual matter, but treated with such raw and bold economy and guts! The tone kept me on my toes, not flamboyant, but pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58813138">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another bleak, drunken noir set in SF, by the great Willeford.  Bibulous fry-cook meets self-destructive beauty, falls for her.  They move into his flophouse and gradually sink into a well of depression resulting in a failed suicide pact, brief institutionalization, and finally a successful suicide ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80530807">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I've read in quite some time.  165 pages of superb, concise writing that delves into the deepest, darkest reaches of the human psyche.<br/>Helen and Harry are complex, obsessive and totally lost.  This is brilliant.  I never feel pity for them, just a sinister fascinat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76624468">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite San Francisco novel (Hammett's The Maltese Falcon a close second). While Kerouac perhaps wrote best about this city, his eye is ultimately too romantic for me. Too much a booster. Willeford, who only lived here briefly before later fame as a Miami crime writer, really captures be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36695834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loves me some classic pulp fiction, and Charles Willeford is about as quirky as the genre comes. <br/><br/>Pick-Up is a deceptively simple tale of a disenchanted and down and out painter and alcoholic who hooks up with a beautiful and insane woman. It is  a story of true love and true hard-boile...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17474096">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[great early willeford. no frills pulp style writing, better than chandler in my opinion, but i guess that this is more the exploits of a drunk transient rather than a no-bullshit cop. takes place in frisco post-wwII-- i.e. rain swept streets, streetcars, all night cafeterias and cavernous bars drows...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6012293">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is really two books. Up to the turning point with Helen, I'd give a 5/5 for the most amazingly true and brutal nihilism I have ever read. It makes Peckinpah at his bleakest look like a sunny romantic. For the second half, I'm still a bit in shock and not sure what to make of it. The twi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77807428">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not really a crime genre novel at all.  More in the genre of doomed love stories like LEAVING LAS VEGAS.  It beautifully captures the world of dead-end jobs and the possibility of life on the cheap in San Francisco that lasted for a long time, but is probably impossible today.  A well-earned surpris...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80084149">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredibly dark and sad story about two alcoholics who find each other in 1950s San Francisco.  It's about love, regret, suffering, addiction, guilt, art and madness. It's like Leaving Las Vegas meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a Sixth Sense twist at the end. If you like unrelenting and de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59825820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All right, so I give a lot of five stars.I don't much like the rating system. ANyhoo, this book had me from the opening when the narrator puts the hotgog in a bun, pours on a ladle full of chili and gives it to the customer &quot;I wouldn't feed it to a dog...&quot; things get pretty dark as our her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16803977">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[can't say much about this title without giving it away-<br/>so I won't.<br/>But it rocked.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[classic 50's noir with lots of boozing and women.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A couple of down and out transients drink and pass time in 1950s San Francisco. Good hard boiled style. This novel has a SURPRISE ENDING. I usually don't like gimmicks at the end of stories, but this one makes you re-think your IMAGINING of the narrative.  Four stars.   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pick-Up by Charles Willeford,  told in the first-person tells the story of a painter who has lost faith in his abilities and is working at odd jobs in San Francisco. He picks up a girl at a bar where he is working, falls in love with her, and is drawn into her web of despair. Soon they have agreed t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38000526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 20 07:19:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 20 07:22:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this book is captivating. The narrative from Willeford is great. I am interested in seeing where this leads. If it continues on the path we are on now then it will be a disappointing outcome but the book itself will be well-worth the read. I am still waiting for the big conflict, but I am on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15886619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 27 08:27:51 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 28 07:06:01 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gritty tale of two down-and-out misfits and their ill-starred romance is San Francisco in the early 1950s.  Most of the action takes place on the streets, in bars, in a third-rate rooming house, in a psychiatric ward, and in jail. Vivid and distubing, with a surprise ending that changes the entire b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9599447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the literary equivalent to the “Cinema of Transgression” (Nick Zedd/Richard Kern) where a couple hit the bottom via alcohol and depravity and reach even lower than humanly possible. The twist ending will make you crazy. I can’t get this book out of my mind. An overlooked classic.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This engrossing &quot;noir&quot; pulp fiction is a distressed yet somehow gentle story about disappointment, alcoholism and the unraveling of two lives.  In a word - poignant.  I was reminded of this book by Leaving Las Vegas.  Pour a stiff drink or three and read it.]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 03 21:54:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all the hard-boiled authors out there, Willeford may be the most  underrated. This is a classic piece of genre fiction, easily the equal of Chandler, Hammett, Cain...]]></body>
    
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