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A carregar... Six-Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Western Fictionpor Bill Pronzini
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I think my enjoyment of this is reduced due to being unfamiliar with the western genre - and tbh some of the "bad" writing just sounded like I'd expect westerns to read like haha. There's also some examples of writing about "Indians" which is often racist and unpleasant sadly but unsurprisingly. Still, there's a decent amount of funny bad writing and it serves as a fun survey of the landscape of mass market Westerns in its own way. And there's some amazing concepts like the random phosphorescent crabs hiding in a volcano ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
This hilarious and informative study of "alternative Westerns" takes aim at sub-par cowboy fiction. Author Bill Pronzini presents hundreds of laughable one-liners and juicy excerpts of deliciously awful dialogue from pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s as well as paperbacks of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Pronzini also offers plot summaries, anecdotes, historical tidbits, and little-known facts about writers from the heyday of the horse opera. Discover the meaning of slang terms such as "slicker 'n slobbers" and "doogin pin" and marvel at a plot element "so bold, so dazzling, so casually insane" that it elevates Jackson Cole's Black Gold to the greatest of all alternative classic Western novels. Meet Chuck Martin, the writer who solemnly "buried" the characters he killed off in his stories in a private cemetery in his backyard, and get acquainted with a gallery of memorable fictional characters, including Ridin' Rand of the Rio Grande, the world's first rhinestone cowboy. The author of Gun in Cheek, a similarly affectionate send-up of crime fiction, Pronzini provides a comic survey that will delight all fans of popular Western fiction. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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