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    <updated_at>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:41:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:01:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Goodis' final novel is his masterpiece, a full-on noir tale of (sub)urban desolation, familial malaise, and loveless relationships. The story is filled with references to his own life, particularly in that the main character works to support his mother and sister, while in real life Goodis was writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21172710">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2137456.Hardboiled_America_The_Lurid_Years_of_Paperbacks">Hardboiled America: The Lurid Years of Paperbacks (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/170117.Geoffrey_O_Brien">Geoffrey O'Brien</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:01:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Brilliant study of the rise hardboiled fiction in the late 1930s through the mid-50s, with particular attention to the role the paperback publisher played, and especially the cover art! At once hilarious, insightful, critical, and loving, O'Brien manages to be a critic, a fan, a historian, and an ea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21059874">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:59:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Fascinating selection of interviews with great directors. The Orson Welles and John Huston interviews stand out as the best, particularly Huston's philosophies on the commercial nature of a film, and Welles' many discussions on actors, screen direction, and screen writing. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77602.The_Doorbell_Rang">The Doorbell Rang (The Rex Stout Library)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41112.Rex_Stout">Rex Stout</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:54:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I abandoned the book halfway through. As it is part of a larger series, perhaps I am just uninitiated to the &quot;Nero Wolfe&quot; series, but this book definitely does not stand on its own two feet. No introduction to characters, no reason to be remotely interested or intrigued by them. Moreover, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20595295">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:25:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The ideal introduction to American Silent Cinema: entertaining, critical, insightful, and very read-able. Everson also makes a brave and wise choice to talk about the current state of silent film scholarship and how it has changed and evolved over the years, particularly in how the (re)discovery of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19766273">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:15:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Narrative couldn't hold my interest for very long, so I ended up putting it down after 50 pages. Utterly predictable characters, situations, plots, and lurid prose style. Unlike <em>The Deep Blue Good-by</em>, in which MacDonald used a self-conscious &quot;hardboiled&quot; style in order to reflect back upon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19281334">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3049754.Retreat_from_Oblivion">Retreat from Oblivion (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7623.David_Goodis">David Goodis</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:07:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[In hindsight, Goodis' first novel really feels like a &quot;first novel.&quot; One recognizes the trademarks of his later output - urban desolation, domestic discontent, loveless marriages, self-loathing, intense depression - but it is explored here in such abundance that Goodis loses control of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18043466">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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