During the Great Depression, many authors wrote stories at a penny a word to make ends meet. Some of these authors wrote up to a million words a year, usually in the form of detective stories, mysteries and thrillers. A lot of these stories, featuring smart, cynical but brave detectives, were first printed in [...]
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Book Review: The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Edited by Otto Penzler
July 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
Tags: black lizard · Captain Jerry Frost · Cornell Woolrich · dames · Dashiell Hammett · detectives · Erle Stanley Gardner · fiction · heroes · Phillipe Marlowe · pulp · pulp fiction · Raymond Chandler · Sam Spade · villains
Heroes and Villains
November 12th, 2007 8 Comments
Feeling: sleepyEvery hero must have a villain to destroy, in order to prove himself a villain hero. But not every villain needs a hero in order to prove himself a villain- Ravan, from The Ramayan
Heroes Episode 20 – A Critique
May 8th, 2007 Comments Off
Feeling: anticipative Listening to: Traffic outsideWarning: This post will likely contain spoilers though I will try to keep them to a minimum. The previous Heroes episode, #20 – “Five Years Gone” along with #19 – “.07%” made a lot of plot lines clear and also gave a sort of future direction to the series. Sort of because due [...]
Tags: episode-20 · heroes · hiro · isaac · tim-kring