Rob Pierce Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rob Pierce

The high priest of Oakland low-lives is back with another nihilistic neo-noir nightmare... this merciless book will shoot you in the back and finish its drink while you bleed out in the gutter. Tom Leins, Repetition Kills You and Sharp Knives & Loud Guns https://t.co/6xyH6MIZBz

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What better proof did he need that his life was winding down than that he had no dread of what lay ahead? - Patricia Highsmith, Strangers On A Train

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@JasonBovberg @jordan_harper @mulhollandbooks Two copies of the short stories, good on ya. I haven't yet read Love & Other Wounds, as I read and loved the first one. But, I should be at a couple of bookstores tomorrow. Damn car won't start, gotta get a jump.

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Talking of others, old men talk about themselves, studying their image in varnished mirrors. - Le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy I read this a few days ago, was going to quote it at dinner last night when my mother-in-law launched into a story about herself.

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@LairdBarron Make room, make room! as Harry Harrison said.

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Watched Monday Night Football, now I'm reading Don't Know Tough by @elicranor, drinking a beer with a little whiskey (Woodford Reserve, breakfast of champions) on the side. A beautiful evening.

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Tonight I watched Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, and discovered that's where Ross MacDonald likely took the title The Drowning Pool. The scenes are damn similar. (Book moved to top of TBR pile.)

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I finished Amina Akhtar's brilliant novel Fashion Victim. If I'd known it was so dark I'd have read it sooner. Now her new one, Kismet, is out. This doesn't bode well for the budget, or the order in which I read the books in the TBR pile(s). https://t.co/Nv8iSHqYt6

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"I can afford to be out of work," she says. "I'll bet," I say, looking round the room. "I didn't know there was that much money in what you did. What was it you said you did?" - Ted Lewis, Jack Carter's Law

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Years ago, my then teenage son, who had read ALL my Cormac McCarthy, said, "I love reading McCarthy, but I wish he wrote happy endings." I said, "You write those endings. Then get the rights." You know, for the children's edition of Blood Meridian we're all clamoring for.

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