January 2012
62 posts
The Incomplete Cain
lareviewofbooks:
BORIS DRALYUK
on the grim hardness of a neglected noir master.
Photograph of Paul Cain from back inside flap of Fast One’s first edition (1933)
Photographer Unknown
Paul Cain The Complete Slayers: Fast One and the Complete Short Stories of Paul Cain
Centipede Press, February 2012. 300 pp. Coleman said: “Eight ball in the corner.”
There was soft click of ball against...
“Gripe, gripe, gripe, all you ever do is gripe,” she retorted, and he laughed,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Ladies of Mandrigyn: The Sun Wolf and Starhawk Series (Book One) by Barbara Hambly
“Her own horror at what she had done turned to fury, fed by the weariness of her...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Ladies of Mandrigyn: The Sun Wolf and Starhawk Series (Book One) by Barbara Hambly
“I thought of bullets and fire, and a deep pit full of darkness. I wished I could...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Bullets and Fire by Joe R. Lansdale
“And I don’t remember it all, but the bullets cut all around me and one went...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Bullets and Fire by Joe R. Lansdale
“I picked up the AK-47. I had shot one before. I had learned a lot about guns...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Bullets and Fire by Joe R. Lansdale
“Dad told me once, that if people don’t care about where they live, the way they...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Bullets and Fire by Joe R. Lansdale
“‘Threats, Mr Barrow, are the preserve of blowhards and cowards. I am neither.’...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“For it is true, deer reader, I have cast off the shakles of maternal luv...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“‘Maleficarus. Self-styled warlock and Great Beast. Actually, rather a …...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“‘Why a mouse when it spins?”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“‘I want to see Satan. Now.’ Cabal’s accent was clipped and faintly Teutonic. ‘I...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“He stood at a desolate and lonely place where there would be no interruption, no...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“The throne was only a throne by dint of its vast scale; otherwise it was simply...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“‘Oh, he called us “gennlemen”, Dennis, didjya ’ear ’im?’ said the short one....”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
“What good is godhood?”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Warbreaker (Tor Fantasy) by Brandon Sanderson
“Something strange is going on, isn’t it?” “I’m still wondering why you think you...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Warbreaker (Tor Fantasy) by Brandon Sanderson
“You’re a very strange man.” “Product of my society,” he said. “And since most of...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Warbreaker (Tor Fantasy) by Brandon Sanderson
“Who are you?” she asked. He turned toward her, eyes hard, showing her—once...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Warbreaker (Tor Fantasy) by Brandon Sanderson
“Vivenna swallowed. “Your plans are a bit more…violent than I had...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Warbreaker (Tor Fantasy) by Brandon Sanderson
“Success in war,” he went on, “is measured by whether or not you do what you aim...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Ladies of Mandrigyn: The Sun Wolf and Starhawk Series (Book One) by Barbara Hambly
“Her hair was not quite dark enough to be seductively exotic, nor curly enough to...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
“These days she tended to think of herself as a Heisenbergian Christian: she...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
“Whoever the vandals were, they possessed, in addition to a facility with locks,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
“If a leg goes bad, you cut it off.” She made a firm gesture with the flat of her...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Minefold Blog: Hubot Minecraft →
minefold:
At Minefold we love Github so much it hurts sometimes. We’ve talked before about our first employee, Marvin a small robot powered by Github’s Hubot. He hangs out in our chat room and provides us with funny things. But what about when we are playing Minecraft? We’re happy to release
“The room was full of murmured conversation as wealthy customers gambled, drank,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“She nodded. “Absolutely. Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle: Book 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
“It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle: Book 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
“It was almost night when Harry tottered into the kitchen and his grandmother...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“Even though there were only two of them there, she lowered her voice as if the...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“‘So we’re just rat-catchers then?’ ‘Yep. And that’s why we’re so happy when once...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“‘I have heard of Gallows Gap,’ said Rakan with an odd, quiet fervour. ‘And I...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Yes, she liked him. This was better. A better life. She liked him, yes she did,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“‘And how exactly did you come by that murderous little item?’ Ringil reached up...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Well, fame took some unpredictable postures when you fucked him. And he was a...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“To M. John Harrison for Viriconium and its denizens, in all their grubby glory....”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Who told you I’m a hero? The thing in the rags grunts. Nothing but heroes in...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“‘I am Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“The men under your command may well hate you, he’d once written, in a treatise...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“They stand at his back in the cold – he can feel them there now – like new gods....”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“One of the Nine Eternal Gifts from the Kiriath to the Khimran dynasty, the Black...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan 