Comments on: Excerpt from James M. Cain's lost final novel: The Cocktail Waitress http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/excerpt-from-james-m-cains.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 22:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Mitchell Powers http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/excerpt-from-james-m-cains.html#comment-1535870 Mitchell Powers Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180291#comment-1535870 Ha.  And now that you mention the cover, why do those Lucky Strikes have a filter on them? [edit] Ah, introduced in the sixties... Ha.  And now that you mention the cover, why do those Lucky Strikes have a filter on them? [edit] Ah, introduced in the sixties…

]]> By: Niranjan Ravichandra http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/excerpt-from-james-m-cains.html#comment-1535753 Niranjan Ravichandra Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180291#comment-1535753 When I look at the title cover, my head automatically looks to the bottom of the cover to see for why there's a *. When I look at the title cover, my head automatically looks to the bottom of the cover to see for why there’s a *.

]]> By: Mitchell Powers http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/excerpt-from-james-m-cains.html#comment-1535741 Mitchell Powers Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180291#comment-1535741 On Deaf Ears. I'll be looking for this one in the library. For me, Serenade is the Cain masterwork. Opera, ocean, Mexico, iguanas, toreadors, it's got it all. On Deaf Ears.

I’ll be looking for this one in the library.

For me, Serenade is the Cain masterwork. Opera, ocean, Mexico, iguanas, toreadors, it’s got it all.

]]> By: iamlegion http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/excerpt-from-james-m-cains.html#comment-1535271 iamlegion Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180291#comment-1535271 "That was unusual in Hyattsville, because Prince George's County doesn't have it hot like in Washington, or in Montgomery County in Maryland, alongside Prince George's but north of it; and vice versa, not such cold weather in winter." Wow, that sentence is murder. That whole paragraph, for that matter. It's clear this was still going through the editorial process, and it's why I'm not that big a fan of authors' unpublished works. “That was unusual in Hyattsville, because Prince George’s County doesn’t have it hot like in Washington, or in Montgomery County in Maryland, alongside Prince George’s but north of it; and vice versa, not such cold weather in winter.”

Wow, that sentence is murder. That whole paragraph, for that matter. It’s clear this was still going through the editorial process, and it’s why I’m not that big a fan of authors’ unpublished works.

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