tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34082741243122462752024-03-08T10:20:34.749-08:00Ken Bruen BringlodiKen Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-33686946287043486022011-10-31T02:23:00.000-07:002011-10-31T02:23:02.503-07:00Se7en<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>.SERIAL</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>There are 3 superb serial killer novels.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Jan Burke....................Bones</i></b><br />
<b><i>Donato Carrisi</i></b><br />
<b><i> ..........The Whisperer</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>And the serial killer novel that is the bar, the level on which all are now balanced.</i></b><br />
<b><i>The Anniversary Man by RJ. Ellory.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>RJ has done it again, with his new novel</i></b><br />
<b><i>'Bad Timing'</i></b><br />
<b><i>A stunning work that evokes an era with startling accuracy, and for a novel with so much darkness, it has moments of deep heart wrenching compassion.</i></b><br />
<b><i>This is the big novel of the year, the epic and pure entertainment to boot.</i></b><br />
<b><i>And on entertainment and fine writing</i></b><br />
<b><i>Bill Crider is me book of choice as I start German Tour tomorrow, Bill and Len Wanner.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Call it double indemnity.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-33619694322704617182011-10-30T03:12:00.000-07:002011-10-30T03:12:24.218-07:00Briste<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>Ghosts must</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>do</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>again</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>What gives them </i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>pain</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>(Auden)</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>For me, tis</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>Grab the grief, and make the sucker sing.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>Darkly or laden, long is it's out there and earning it's cost.</i></b></span>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-56379708468583422112011-10-29T02:18:00.000-07:002011-10-29T02:18:43.249-07:00Banks to Swierczynski<b><i>Ray and Duane are turning out some of the finest noir of the decade. Their novels are consistently</i></b><br />
<b><i>superb.</i></b><br />
<b><i>lesser applauded are their short stories.</i></b><br />
<b><i>here's Ray with </i></b><br />
<b><i>real Gone</i></b><br />
<b><i>and describing Goose</i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">he's a guy with a pot belly</span> and one leg, sitting in a wheelchair and talking like he's kept the best eight ball for himself. he calls himself Goose because he says he lost the leg at Goose green in '82.Anyone who 's known him longer than a minute knows he lost the leg becasue he tried to mainline an artery.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>Duane with </i></b><br />
<b><i>The Replacement</i></b><br />
<b><i> here's one classic line from a slew of gems</i></b><br />
<b><i>'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">God, but for the grace of bikinis go I'</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</span></i></b><br />
<b><i>Ray's story is to be found in</i></b><br />
<b><i>The Best of British Mysteries 1V'</i></b><br />
<b><i>edited by the alchemist, Maxim Jakubowski</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>and Duane s black jewel in</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>Todd Robinson and Otto Penzlers</i></b><br />
<b><i>'hardcore hardboiled'</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>Coming in the random alphabet of mystery</i></b><br />
<b><i>are</i></b><br />
<b><i>Abbot to Guthrie</i></b><br />
<b><i>Coleman to Starr and Straley</i></b><br />
<b><i>The order of this randomness is Irish logic,</i></b><br />
<b><i>meaning</i></b><br />
<b><i>Pot luck an a whole lotta cheek.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-54779426116615811392011-10-27T23:57:00.000-07:002011-10-27T23:57:22.814-07:00Stardust.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>From Woody Allen;s 'Stardust Memories.'</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>.......Let me tell you</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>You're not the missionary type</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>you'd never</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>last</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>and incidentally</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>you're not Superman</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>You're a comedian ( insert As fits, ie, writer)</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>you want to do mankind</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>a favour?</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>Tell funnier jokes ( write better novels)</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-4347156488623870122011-10-27T00:37:00.000-07:002011-10-27T00:37:16.432-07:00On David Corbett, Matt Mc Bride, Sean Mc Grady<b><i>Poetry isn't essential to writing but oh, drinking from a long neck without a glass isn't essential but phew-oh</i></b><br />
<b><i>it sure does add to that vibe.</i></b><br />
<b><i>The three writers above</i></b><br />
<b><i>One experienced pro</i></b><br />
<b><i>Two new writers.</i></b><br />
<b><i>All write with poetic sensibility.</i></b><br />
<b><i>How much does it matter?</i></b><br />
<b><i>As much as Galway Rain enhances that rainbow glimpsed above the recent storm on Galway Bay.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Shines like desperation ebbing. </i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-67080074464126468802011-10-25T23:48:00.000-07:002011-10-25T23:48:24.436-07:00Blitzkreig<b><i>................In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it, you do not know how it is done. This is because there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out.It continues and is always valid.</i></b><br />
<b><i>each time you re-read you see or learn something new.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>1952; Hemingway letter to Harvey Breit.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">He could have been describing,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> Craig</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> mc</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> Donald.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i>Who single handily, ended the whole debate on </i></b><br />
<b><i>Mystery vs. Literature.</i></b><br />
<b><i>By writing.</i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span></i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-39477397188055145762011-10-25T02:17:00.000-07:002011-10-25T02:17:01.498-07:00The Devils Mambo<b><i>Jerry Rodriguez was a great friend and endlessly talented.</i></b><br />
<b><i>His novel The Devil's Mambo was classic noir with biting wit.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Jerry was almost ridiculously talented and in company with Jason Starr and I at that great B'con he had women rating he was even more rock n roll than Jason!</i></b><br />
<b><i>he was a gifted documentary maker, a rare and rarest photographer.</i></b><br />
<b><i>His passing tore me asunder, then and now.</i></b><br />
<b><i>I remember him today as a grace of having a buddy who lit up me life.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Codlamh sabh mo cara.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-44981492325398082882011-10-24T01:34:00.000-07:002011-10-24T01:34:00.721-07:00Gerard for president.<b><i>The Prince of NI.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Gerard Brennan is</i></b><br />
<b><i>one of the finest crime commentators around</i></b><br />
<b><i>Editor of the award winning collection with the wunderkind Mike Cane....Requeims For The Departed'</i></b><br />
<b><i>THE POINT</i></b><br />
<b><i>Gerard's novel, now available, is definitely on me top 5 of 2011.</i></b><br />
<b><i>This novel is The Coen brothers in NI.</i></b><br />
<b><i>NI is astounding these days in it's crime writers</i></b><br />
<b><i>from Bateman through Brian Gilloway Eoin Mc Namee to Stuart Neville.</i></b><br />
<b><i>jesus wept, what are these guys taking and Dios Mio, may I have some and soon.</i></b><br />
<b><i>More books, music and DVD's tomorrow or.......</i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408274124312246275.post-73372951273188146952011-10-23T10:00:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:00:57.523-07:00Dilemma<b><i>See, here's the dilemma.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Adrian Mc Kinty's, 'The Cold Cold Ground' has to go on me 5 best of the year as it's</i></b><br />
<b><i>riveting</i></b><br />
<b><i>brilliant</i></b><br />
<b><i>and just about the best book yet on NI.</i></b><br />
<b><i>But</i></b><br />
<b><i>It ain't due out until 2012.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Hmm.......</i></b><br />
<b><i>Not to mention it's teeming rain like the Heavens are seriously pissed.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Not that these random items are related.</i></b><br />
<b><i>I think.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b>Ken Bruenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507134627825902087noreply@blogger.com4