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    <body><![CDATA[POSTMAN and INDEMNITY are every bit as noirish good as you'd expect, and MILDRED PIERCE is just inches shy of being a great novel.  It's very good, but it operates on too many improbable plot twists to be great.  That said, these are three terrific reads from an age when even the more commercial wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20973976">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For anyone wanting to explore the works of Cain, I highly recommend this Everyman's Library edition. The editor made great choices regarding what to include and in which order.  Each of the three novels was better than its predecessor, and the short stories at the end are like lovely niblets of almo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74959672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who are these people? I think the dust and heat have made them all crazy. This is what I thought might be going on when I lived in Tucson for a year. James M. Cain is classic hard-boiled, fast-talking, sexy stuff. The storylines are improbable, and almost always involve murder, which I think we can ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16150700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This amazing collection of novellas and short stories shows James M. Cain's evolution from a great pulp novelist to a simply great novelist.  Though The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and most of the stories focus on noir murder tales, and though they are spiced up with quite outrageo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14008324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[after <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16927.Dashiell_Hammett" title="Dashiell Hammett">dashiell hammett</a> elevated the nickel pulp to classical status (knopf published his works just as they were serialized), in comes cain.  where hammett's books are written from the p.o.v. of law &amp; order, cain usually takes the opposite vantage: the sociopath, or one finding his or herself at odd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11189704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nowhere near as emotionally complex and fully-realized in character and atmosphere as Chandler (and unlike him, I didn't fall in love), hardly as gritty and weirdly educated as Hammett.<br/><br/>Yet: piled on with raw ugly emotion and a bitter sense of the horrid little transactions that make up a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1176811">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[-Double Indemnity- was strange and very, very hot. -Mildred Pierce- was gripping, but a little long. -Postman- was even hotter than -DI-. Weird that some lumpy guy who wrote advertising could write about sex so fiercely but covertly. Both of those books grab you and race you to the finish line<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21902030">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only story from this book I was familiar with was Mildred Pierce. I remembered seeing the movie when I was a teen and was quite impressed by it. ALL the stories in this collection have the ability to keep you edgey. You have that feeling of dread...inpending doom. He really captures the feel of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63611916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was terrible. Depressing, tedious without reward, and boring. All three of the stories were awful, and I won't read anything else by James M. Cain. Glad to be finished with this atrocity. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Postman Always Rings Twice,&quot; rated #98 on the Modern Library &quot;Best Novels of the 20th Century&quot; list.  Pretty impressive.  I don't know that I would count &quot;Postman&quot; as one of the best 100 novels of the whole century.  The narrator is a total bore; the only really in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19861567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from these stories is that people are soooo bad, and terribly interesting!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just &quot;The Postman Always Rings Twice&quot; this time...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm starting to feel like James Cain is one of the greatest American authors. The crisp simplicity and honesty of his style is really something. He acknowledges the humanity of his characters in all its impulsiveness and derangement, but they are still recognizable as human beings. He manages to mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1674398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read all these so i bundled them togethr<br/>Cain is a master writer the Postman always rings twice, has no equal in the Noir genre i think. living in california now I can see it...<br/>and the distrubed Mildred Pierce is very  very good but i 'd give that 4 stars its long and loses you sometimes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read The Postman Always Rings Twice from this collection. Lost of great &quot;High Pants, Fast Talking&quot; style dialogue. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard-boiled fiction with literary teeth.  Let them bite you.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my summer reading ]]></body>
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