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I guess Im giving this thing three stars, because of the six novels in here three I found too dull to get through, and the other three just totally blew my brains out with awesome.The three great ones served me that ever-helpful reminder about the importance of Balls in Fiction. Theres always been some lame, cringing part of me that believes fiction needs to be careful, responsible, fact-checked, and intelligent, and preferably about boring, unhappy adults having subtle but poignant though not-too-melodramatic interactions with each other. I really dont know where I got that idea since this isnt what I like to read -- probably its from flipping through my moms New Yorkers at a tender age (pssst! parents! dont leave those things out!). Fortunately, theres a huge body of literature out there frequently reminding me that this notion is crap. So much great fictions great because it has BALLS! Not cringing, careful, finely-crafted works of emotional complexity and nuance, but brash, bizarre stories of imaginative fearlessness that come from big BALLS -- or, for the rest of us maybe, guts. Red, throbbing, gristly, fat wet gross GUTS! The guts to put nasty people, rough sex, improbable events, zoo animals, sideshow freaks, vile murder, and whatever else you can think of into your story. Of course, if you write that stuff, youre writing genre fiction, which explains why all these books were grouped as Crime Novels, a categorization thats difficult to explain otherwise.... but hey.Ill be brief (or not):The Postman Always Rings Twice is raw, undistilled, visceral noir at its best, and anyone who enjoys this kind of things probably already read it. The characters in this story are gritty and mean and so insistently physical you can see them in front of you. Theyre not the nicest people, but theyre definitely human, theres no arguing with that. The sexual energy between the two is described so urgently and so well that you understand why someone would kill for it; youre ready to yourself, it all seems so real. I loved the hell out of this, though I wouldnt necessarily recommend it to anyone who isnt into crime fiction.While Postmans obviously of the genre it birthed, its a lot harder to place They Shoot Horses, Dont They? there. I guess its a crime novel, but its also kind of not. This is one of the most bizarre books Ive ever read. It really reminded me of this crazy 1980s novel called The Pit that I got at the Bins years ago, about an est-style encounter group gone horribly, horribly wrong..... Anyway, Id heard this title before, probably in connection with the movie, and I always got it mixed up with I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and imagined the question being asked by a tearful child in a frightened, pathetic voice: They shoot horses -- sniff! sob! -- dont they? WRONG! Thats not it at all; I dont think it gives too much away to reveal that the emphasis in the sentence goes on the word horses. Try it out, youll see the difference.... Anyway, the structures a bit gimmicky and forced -- its all flashbacks in the killers mind while the judge is imposing his sentence in enormous letters between the chapter breaks -- but the story itself is one of the most insane, brilliant concepts I think Ive ever come across. The whole thing takes place at a month-long Depression-era dance marathon. I SAID: The whole thing takes place at a MONTH-LONG DEPRESSION-ERA DANCE MARATHON!!!! Thats the craziest thing Ive ever heard of!!! Its an event where the couples are only allowed ten-minute breaks for sleeping, eating, and bathing, and just have to dance -- and, once a night, race in a sickeningly brutal derby event -- for a MONTH! Some physical and mental exhaustion, with sundry hijinks, does ensue. I loved the audacity of this book for existing. I think its terrific, and Im pretty sure most other people who read it will freak out from it too.Nightmare Alley also completely exploded my mind. This was one where the gimmicky structure of Major Arcana tarot cards as chapter headings -- used probably before and definitely since to usually tedious effect -- worked. This book had it ALL! I mean, it really had everything. It starts out in a carnival, and all the subject matter is so over-the-top and yet the descriptions all conveyed so well so you actually feel youre consuming this stuff with your senses, that the result is this incredibly successful cocktail of cartoony fantasy and an almost realistic novel. I think he sort of lost control of the plot somewhat after a point, but its still a great novel. This guy is a talented writer, and I was sorry to hear from Wikipedia that he was a more-tragic-even-than-usual alcoholic who eventually killed himself. Plus, his wife ditched him for C. S. Lewis, which must have sucked (note: do not become pulp writer, especially if you are a drinker, as it never ends well).... Anyway, like I said, this book had everything. Everything! A wonderful, freakulant carnival (the greatest carnival in books or movies, that Ive ever come across)! Desire! Sex! Ambition! Human depravity! Freudian hang-ups! Magic tricks! Spiritualism! Deception! Psychiatry! Industry! Tragedy! Etc! Theres even a magical, labor-agitating Negro, for reasons I was not swift enough to grasp, except that this was the point where I actually yelled: Holy shit! This book really does have everything!They Shoot Horses, Dont They? and Nightmare Alley were especially great because they both managed to present extremely bleak views of human nature and modern life, using metaphors that were the most amusing and entertaining thing ever. I loved these books! I really did!But I did not love -- sorry Kirsti -- the other three books in this anthology. Thieves Like Us I could tell was objectively pretty good, but I just wasnt interested in convicts on the lam. Maybe some other time? It seemed so prosaic after the dance marathon! Maybe if Id read more of it I wouldve gotten absorbed, but I didnt stick around long enough to find out -- I got out of there, hit the road and kept running. Similar thing with The Big Clock. You know how a lot of the time it takes a few pages of grating disorientation before all the little gears engage, and the whole mechanism starts working for you? Well, that just didnt really happen for me here. I wasnt seeing anything, and the other books Id read in here had spoiled me. The beginning of the novel was just words on a page, and I didnt know who the characters were or what was going on or where anyone was, and if Id had any reason to keep reading Im sure I couldve gotten my bearings, but as it was I just impatiently let it wind down and ran on to the carnival.I Married a Dead Man I actually read quite a bit of, but then I suddenly stopped and asked myself, Why? I felt like someone drinking a nauseatingly sweet drink based on some promise that thered be a great big shot of bourbon at the bottom of my glass. I was choking on all this saccharine pink stuff, and then finally I just thought, well am I that hard up for bourbon? I am not. So I bailed....All in all, though, this is a great collection, and the stories I skipped are probably good if youre in the mood, which I wasnt. I mean, how many crime novels of the thirties and forties does a girl need to read at once? The ones that I liked were magnificent, and made me feel well-fed and enthusiastic. They also made me feel like murdering people who are in my way! Except not really, because then Ill get sent to the electric chair, and no one likes that.I will go on the record as saying that while Im against capital punishment, I suspect disuse of the electric chair has had dreadful collateral consequences for the crime novel genre. There is just a certain lurid allure and dramatic tension lacking from concern about life imprisonment, or even endless appeals that drag on for decades.... Now, Im not suggesting we return to the practice of swiftly executing the lusty, hardboiled murderers of the thirties and forties. That just isnt necessary, as theres plenty of extant fiction from then left for us to enjoy.
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