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Hardboiled
Hardboiled fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with crime fiction (especially detective stories), and distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sometimes sex.
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CHAPTER 1:
My old car battery, dead as a turd, rode in the trunk of Dreema’s sedan. She’d told me to take it. I felt embarrassed to drive it, but I had no other way to pick up a new car battery.
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― Traffic
― Traffic
“
Now when I was a boy
My daddy sat me on his knee
And he told me
He told me many things
He said son
There's a lot of things in this world
You're gonna have no use for
And when you get blue
And you've lost all your dreams
There's nothin' like a campfire
And a can of beans
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― The Blackrider : the casting of the magic bullets
― The Blackrider : the casting of the magic bullets
A group for those engaged in the real estate profession who enjoy reading mysteries and thriller…more
2 members,
last active 14 years ago
Noir, hardboiled and pulp. This is the reading group linked to the Point Blank podcast.
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135 members,
last active one year ago
A book club dedicated to reading cheap/free pulp stories and novels. Each month we'll do a trio …more
5 members,
last active 10 years ago
This is the official Goodreads group for Stark House Press, publisher of fine noir and hard-boil…more
10 members,
last active one year ago
