American pulp fiction is celebrated in this unique volume, which anthologizes 1920s and 1930s innovators like John Jakes and Robert Bloch alongside later masters of the form, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake, among many others. Original.
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A second skimming of the same deep vats that provided the harvest for the editors American Pulp (1997) produces a behemoth collection of 25 more oldies spanning 40 years, from 1944 (Leigh Brackett) to 1984 (Joe L. Hensley), running from 4 pages (Lawrence Block) to 148 (Peter Rabe), and resembling each other only in being as dark, tawdry, exciting, and stylishly desolate as a city street at midnight. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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By lazza
Format:Paperback
As with any massive collections of short stories one would a few duds. Maybe even more than a few. However in "Pure Pulp" I consider on 11 of the 35 short stories/novellas to be either good or excellent. The other 24 are only fair or downright poor or even amateurish. So with a hit rate of only 30% I'd say one can probably do better with other pulp fiction collections.
For completeness sake, here are the books[authors] of the stories I liked:
- In a Small Motel [MacDonald]
- Sudden, Sudden Death [Powell]
- That Stranger, My Son [Gilford]
- Terrorists [Marlowe]
- The Plunge [Goodis]
- Down in the Valley [Reasoner]
- Cry Silence [Brown]
- Tick, Tock [Wandrei]
- Guilt [Jakes]
- Decision [Nielson]
- Don't Twist My Arm [Ritchie]
By "jhodo"
Format:Paperback
When I first pick up this book I was a little skeptical of just how entertaining this collection would be. It turned out to be my favorite collection of short stories ever written. Now "pulp" fiction may not be the highest caliber of literature but you can't overlook the each author's usage of description, twists, and character names (i.e. Sam Culp, James Cargill and so on). I recommend this book to anybody who wants to have a good time with a great book.
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