Well I learned what Bizarro Novels are like - laughed so hard at some parts and other's made one want to take a shower asap.
Guess that is what they ar...moreWell I learned what Bizarro Novels are like - laughed so hard at some parts and other's made one want to take a shower asap.
Rohmer is often maligned as being not politically correct, but alas that is the time, place and culture within which he lived and crafted his mysterie...moreRohmer is often maligned as being not politically correct, but alas that is the time, place and culture within which he lived and crafted his mysteries.
Knowing that the cultural portrayals are stereotypes of fantasy, having little to do with the cultures & people as they were then, and certainly less than they do now - by ascribing them him the same license that allows us to enjoy the witches & munchkins of the Wizard of Oz, the Hobbits of that trilogy, or the Sandpeople of Star Wars or the the Bene Gesserit & Fremen of Dune - that then we can get on to simply enjoying the storyteller at his art.
But then perhaps Rohmer is incurably racist.
Nonetheless the story is an adventure, well set in a certain period & place, and a fun read.
Available for a few weeks in eBook formats, I have bee privileged to receive an advance copy of Mar Preston's newest "Crime Noir" novel "Rip-Off" to r...moreAvailable for a few weeks in eBook formats, I have bee privileged to receive an advance copy of Mar Preston's newest "Crime Noir" novel "Rip-Off" to read.
A fun read in bringing the worries of the headlines of today into the who-done-it genre of Crime-Noir.
Set in an urban world that may be all but alien to many of us, Mar does an earthy tactile job of carving out characters and letting them play one of another in her second installment in the Detective Dave Mason series.
I had enough fun reading her tale of crime in Santa Monica that the books pages roared past me as I kept up the action.
You'll enjoy looking in on this world of international crime.
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