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Recommend me some good noir reading

post #1 of 23
7/14/09 at 12:45pm
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If you've read some good classic noir or neo-noir fiction let me know about it. Looking for some good reads.
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post #2 of 23
7/14/09 at 12:52pm
The complete works of Dashiell Hammett. Start with Red Harvest
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post #3 of 23
7/14/09 at 12:55pm
Raymond Chandler
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post #4 of 23
7/14/09 at 12:55pm
The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep - the movies are classics but differ from the books enough to warrant reading.

I still have the Philip Kerr 'Berlin Noir' stuff on my list to read.
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post #5 of 23
7/14/09 at 1:21pm
Noir without the detective element: Books by Chuck Palahniuk. Of the ones I read, namely Survivor comes to mind.
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post #6 of 23
7/14/09 at 1:34pm
Pulp by Bukowski.
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post #7 of 23
7/14/09 at 1:52pm
http://www.amazon.com/120-Rue-Gare-L...7590252&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/White-Jazz-Nov...7590313&sr=1-1
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post #8 of 23
7/14/09 at 2:07pm
A Touch of Death by Charles Williams

And two of Lawrence Block's early novels: The Girl With The Long Green Heart and Lucky At Cards
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post #9 of 23
7/14/09 at 2:17pm
ross macdonald: the barborous coast, instant enemy james m. cain: double indemnity, the postman always rings twice jim thompson: pop 1280, the killer inside me noir/pulp... www.hardcasecrime.com collection the black lizard big book of pulps
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post #10 of 23
7/14/09 at 3:28pm
Ian Rankin's Rebus stories?

Classic noir - James Ellroy

*Not for the faint of heart: Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn
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post #11 of 23
7/14/09 at 3:30pm
The Third Man.
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post #12 of 23
7/14/09 at 3:38pm
Georges Simenon
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post #13 of 23
7/14/09 at 3:39pm
Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway, The Grifters, etc. (start with TKIM)
Hammett, Chandler, Cain
Charles Willeford - Cockfighter
Ross MacDonald - The Moving Target, Drowning Pool, Galton Case
Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers On A Train
David Goodis - Shoot The Piano Player
Eric Ambler's spy novels

But most of all, Georges Simenon's roman durs - Dirty Snow, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The Strangers In The House
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post #14 of 23
7/14/09 at 4:07pm
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I've read Hammet, Chandler, and Palahniuk. Other than that, most of the other suggestions I have not. These are great, thanks.
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post #15 of 23
7/14/09 at 6:19pm
Also, Irvine Welsh. Filth is even a(bout a) detective.
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