Best Book You Read Latey

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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by yoku » Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:14 pm

bizzaro wrote:
Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:59 pm
Lately I have been reading reprints/compilations of old Pulp Magazines.
So far I've read a The Best of Thrilling Adventures, which has a ton of short stories in it.
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From space travel to western stories, it really has all you could want if you like the pulp magazine style; couldn't recommend it enough.
If you like this definitely read Robert E. Howard’s Boxing stories!! I might go as far as saying Steve Costigan is my favorite Howard hero insofar as he is so lovable vs Conan who I consider an ideal.
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by nfl69 » Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:18 pm

not a book, but a short story worth reading:

A Piece of Steak by Jack London

https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/steak.html
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by bizzaro » Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:39 pm

yoku wrote:
Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:14 pm
bizzaro wrote:
Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:59 pm
Lately I have been reading reprints/compilations of old Pulp Magazines.
So far I've read a The Best of Thrilling Adventures, which has a ton of short stories in it.
Image
From space travel to western stories, it really has all you could want if you like the pulp magazine style; couldn't recommend it enough.
If you like this definitely read Robert E. Howard’s Boxing stories!! I might go as far as saying Steve Costigan is my favorite Howard hero insofar as he is so lovable vs Conan who I consider an ideal.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try and track down a copy.
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by SpaceLions » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:32 pm

Read this fuckin masterpiece last night. Short stories enrich my bones.
https://lithub.com/the-pugilist-at-rest-by-thom-jones/
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by Penseroso » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:01 pm

Another good prize fighter writer was Lous L'Amour, one of his short story volumes is all about boxing, and he had the experience to back it up.
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by yoku » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:10 pm

Penseroso wrote:
Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:01 pm
Another good prize fighter writer was Lous L'Amour, one of his short story volumes is all about boxing, and he had the experience to back it up.
Love me some boxing stories, looking it up now.
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by yoku » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:16 pm

Penseroso wrote:
Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:01 pm
Another good prize fighter writer was Lous L'Amour, one of his short story volumes is all about boxing, and he had the experience to back it up.
:ugeek:
You ever hear of Jim Tully? He was a boxer and vagabond that wrote popular books in the 1920’s. His work is a little hard to find but it’s worth it.
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by nfl69 » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:27 pm

somewhat tangential to prize fighting we have straight up criminality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bunker

no beast so fierce is killer, and i can also recommend the film straight time that was based on it
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by ganymede » Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:30 am

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal is sometimes called the most french novel ever written. Set at the very end of the Napoleonic Wars, the young Marchese Fabrizio del Dongo proves the meaning of the word nobility.
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Re: Best Book You Read Latey

Post by don » Wed May 01, 2019 11:47 am

ganymede wrote:
Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:30 am
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal is sometimes called the most french novel ever written. Set at the very end of the Napoleonic Wars, the young Marchese Fabrizio del Dongo proves the meaning of the word nobility.
so is it like a ford maddox ford thing or what
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