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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus']]>
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to: The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus (Penguin Crime Fiction)byJohn Franklin Bardin
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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'The Last of Philip Banter']]>
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to: The Last of Philip Banter (Classic Crime)byJohn Franklin Bardin
This may be the weakest of John Franklin Bardin's three classic novels but its fascinating nonetheless and may have the most remarkable sequence of any of his three novels. In it Phillip Banter drunken and panicked stumbles into a movie and begins to confuse his own story with the story of the crime melodrama he's watching, stumbles out of the theater more distressed than before only to have a chance encounter with a discharged soldier who maybe crazier than he is. It captures perfectly the mood of despair, guilt and desperation that the novel as a whole manages to suggest throughout with sustaining.
More than worth reading.
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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'Devil take the Blue-tail Fly']]>
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to: Devil take the Blue-tail Fly (Classic Crime)byJohn Franklin Bardin
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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'Outpost of Progress']]>
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to: Outpost of Progress (Paperback)byJoseph Conrad
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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'The End of the Tether']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68609749
to: The End of the Tether (Paperback)byJoseph Conrad
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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'The Deadly Percheron']]>
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to: The Deadly Percheron (Paperback)byJohn Franklin Bardin
I finished this book about a month. I found it very entertaining, strained my belief at times but always managed to make even its most outrageous suprises fit within the boundaries of the story. Critics have described this book as surreal but it actually reminds me of Pirandello in particular his Henry IV in which the main characters indentity keeps shifting and one is unclear even at the end whether the character is mad or feigning madness or perhaps a bit of both. The only weakness of the deadly percheron is that it steps back from the implications of its themes where Pirandello never lets up. An instant favorite.
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<![CDATA[Ericpegnam added 'The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories']]>
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to: The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories (Paperback)byPaul Bowles
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