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Mattsbookaday
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain (1934)

Premise: A drifter arrives at a California service station, setting off a dark chain of events.

Review: This classic is noir fiction at its absolute best: atmospheric, hard-boiled, and no-holds-barred
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Mattsbookaday Read this if you enjoy crime fiction and gritty story-telling, but if you need likable or relatable characters you‘d probably be best to skip it. Content warnings for conspiracy, violence, and anti-Mediterranean-origin prejudice.

Bookish Pair: For another classic piece of noir literature, Dashiell Hammett‘s The Maltese Falcon (1930).

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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SanjanaGhosh
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Bailedbailed

The writing style is not my type :(

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RamsFan1963
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41/100 There is a killer lose in Gotham, named Midnight, who takes the heart of their victims. Working with some of Batman's most notorious foes, Joker, Scarecrow, Clayface, they wreak terror on the city. The story is kind of clunky, exposition heavy, and Midnight's true identity is pretty obvious. What saves this from a so-so rating, is the amazing artwork by Kelly Jones. Jones truly captures Batman as a creature of the night, and since this ⬇️

RamsFan1963 is more a horror comic than a superhero one, the designs of Batman, Midnight, and Gotham itself, brings the story up a notch or two. Jones reminds me a lot of Bernie Wrightson, who was a master of horror comics. 3 ⭐⭐⭐💫 #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025 1w
AnnCrystal 💫💫🦇💫💫. 1w
TheSpineView 👍📖📚 6d
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Teresereading
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In the shadows of the Aberystwyth Castle, an amazing site we visited a few years ago
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12
#TBRpile

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Decalino
Velvet Was the Night | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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In this atmospheric noir novel set in Mexico in the 1970s, Maite is a dissatisfied secretary who livens up her life with romance comics, lies, and the occasional petty theft, while Elvis is a member of the Hawks, hired thugs trained to violently disrupt student protests. As they both become embroiled in the search for a missing young woman, Maite and Elvis each seek escape through music and glimpses of beauty in a tedious and often violent world.

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Leftcoastzen
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#DynamicDs #Detective #OldSchool The tagged book is a collection of stories , The Maltese Falcon brought us Sam Spade , The Big Sleep , Phillip Marlowe .
Humphrey Bogart played both of those roles , & as you can see from the cover , Robert Mitchum played Marlowe in a remake . Good stuff !

Eggs Excellent stuff 👏🏻 3w
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AvidReader25
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Mehso-so

Classic noir novel about a drifter who falls in love with the wife of a restaurant owner, and they plot to murder him. Fast-paced, choppy sentences, quick read. There is definitely some sexism & racism mixed in here that speaks to its 1930s publication. Glad to read the well-known story though, and it definitely kept me turning the pages. I wish I could have seen a bit of depth in the character of Cora. We see her only through the drifter‘s eyes.

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vivastory
Hammett Crime Stories and Other Writings | Dashiell Hammett, Library of America (Firm)
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After work today I had to decompress at a cocktail bar down the street. The bartender made a Hammett reference, so I'm tagging this in... happy weekend, everyone! 🍷📚🍻

TheBookHippie Looks good! Cheers! 4w
Aims42 Happy Weekend, you‘re starting it off right 👏 4w
Ruthiella Cheers! 🥂 4w
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AmyG Cheers! Have a wonderful weekend! 4w
kspenmoll Enjoy your weekend! 🍹 4w
dabbe Hello, weekend! 🤩🤩🤩 4w
BarbaraBB Enjoy your weekend Scott! 4w
Cathythoughts Great picture! Happy Weekend cheers 🥂 4w
LeahBergen That‘s a good bartender! 4w
CarolynM Happy weekend! 4w
tpixie What a lovely spot! 4w
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RamsFan1963
The Fade Out Vol. 3 | Ed Brubaker
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34/100 This wasn't the conclusion that I wanted, but I guess it is the ending that best suits the story. In the end, there's no justice, for anyone, people die, the studio covers more scandals, and everyone shrugs and goes about their business as if it's all supposed to be this way. 3.75/5 #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

TieDyeDude Yeah, it had kind of a Chinatown ending, which was fitting, IMO. 4w
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RamsFan1963
The Fade Out Vol. 2 | Ed Brubaker
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33/100 The mystery deepens as our writer "hero" foolishly falls in love with the actress hired to replace the other actress. Plenty of secrets come out, dirty tricks, sexual assaults, perversions, scandals the studio is willing to kill to keep quiet. Charlie, the writer, is too drunk most of the time to realize the real danger he is involved in. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025