[Johnny Thunders, sinon, Steiner, Clapton, Otto Preminger, Harold Arlen, Manchette, Chabrol et Jil Caplan clic-clic, pas mal.]
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samedi 23 avril 2022
lundi 8 octobre 2012
Des journées entières dans les livres #115
Dans pratiquement toutes les affaires sur lesquelles
j'enquête, je cherche toujours à impliquer autant de monde que possible,
moi-même y compris. Mon box à témoins idéal serait assez grand pour la
population de la terre entière. Nous irions chacun de notre témoignage, à
raconter nos tristes histoires, et viendrait ensuite un acquittement de
masse ; nous sortirions tous libres, libres de réessayer.
[Ici, on aime bien Mc Ilvanney, le 8 octobre clic-clic parce que, et Kathleen Ferrier.]
lundi 1 août 2011
Robin Cook, toujours
The Factory series was published between 1984 and 1993, and there remains no finer writing – crime or otherwise – about the state of Britain. Tragically, it is still the state we’re in.
[David Peace, 2011, cité par John Harvey sur son blog, clic-clic. Avec un hommage à deux de nos personal favourites, Laidlaw et Balzic, pas les plus connus, non, mais voilà. Il doit bien y avoir quelques traces dans les archives.]
Though the other character who was of central importance as a progenitor of Resnick was William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw. And not just to me. Rankin, whose Edinburgh was closer, after all, to Laidlaw’s Glasgow than my Nottingham, has made clear his debt to McIlvanney in the past. “Rebus,” he has said, “was an attempt at an east-coast Laidlaw.” Finally, though, when it comes the naming favourites, the law officers I enjoy reading about more than any others, are three: the persistent and long-suffering police chief Mario Balzic, in a stream of novels by K. C. Constantine; the permanently at-odds duo of Harpur and Isles in the novels of Bill James; and Jamie Harrison’s Sheriff Jules Clement, struggling to overcome a guiltily left-wing youth, gain respect and bring law and order [ plus the occasional well-made meal ] to the small township of Blue Deer, Montana.
Though the other character who was of central importance as a progenitor of Resnick was William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw. And not just to me. Rankin, whose Edinburgh was closer, after all, to Laidlaw’s Glasgow than my Nottingham, has made clear his debt to McIlvanney in the past. “Rebus,” he has said, “was an attempt at an east-coast Laidlaw.” Finally, though, when it comes the naming favourites, the law officers I enjoy reading about more than any others, are three: the persistent and long-suffering police chief Mario Balzic, in a stream of novels by K. C. Constantine; the permanently at-odds duo of Harpur and Isles in the novels of Bill James; and Jamie Harrison’s Sheriff Jules Clement, struggling to overcome a guiltily left-wing youth, gain respect and bring law and order [ plus the occasional well-made meal ] to the small township of Blue Deer, Montana.
vendredi 8 octobre 2010
Des journées entières dans les livres #13
A partir de maintenant, tu serais seul. C'était ce que tu méritais. Dehors, la ville te haïssait. Peut-être même t'avait-elle toujours exclu. Elle avait toujours été si sûre d'elle même, si pleine de gens qui n'ouvraient pas les portes à moitié, qui avaient la démarche assurée.
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