Thoughts on the quality of Library of America? Also is this a good selection of noir novels?
>CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40s
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich
>CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1950s
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Pick-Up by Charles Willeford
Down There by David Goodis
The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes
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FRICK THE LoA! Fricking Masonic pedoshits!
What did they do?
he's schizophrenic
LoA books are really nice when you see them in-person imo
I only have a few but i can confidently say that if you're looking for a collection they're worth it
Don't forget Raymond Chandler's set
I dunno about all that. But "Library of America" are the most perfectly printed and bound books available today. God damn I love them. You get 1,000 pages in one volume, a ribbon boomark, a cloth hardback, all in consistent size and in appealing colors, for like 12 bucks. It's unreal. It makes Penguin Classics seem crass and cheap.
>$12
I’m guessing you buy used
Why would you not? I paid less than $40 CAD for Faulkner's entire 1930s output in mint condition from LOA at a used bookstore a few months ago.
I don’t like used books. You do as you wish but if you are advertising a price, if it is unsaid, one assumes you’re talking retail
I get wanting to buy some books new but retail is almost doubly expensive. Why do you not like used?
I just like unopened books that haven’t been handled by others. Whenever I’ve bought used from abebooks I’ve been lied to as well about the quality of the book. I’d rather just pay an extra $10-20 and have a pristine virgin book. I just like it more and I have money
They’re just 12 dollars where you live??
I buy them used. Once I bought a whole sett, almost 30 books, for around usd.
I think you accidentally the price
This is a good selection but they have independent books for Chandler and Hammett who are the two major writers.
Are there any good American Noir books of the first half of the 20th century, but with vibes of weird (like Lovecraft) or about cults, isolated places, Silent Hillish atmosphere?
>no Fast One by Paul Cain
Cringe.
They're hard to beat if you're looking for a good anthology or complete collection of a single author. Some collections aren't complete, you have to watch out for that.
How is the Whitman?
It has everything he wrote so it’s great
It's allegedly missing a few poems from Leaves of Grass, but it has the original and final versions he personally edited so you can't go by what autists on Amazon say. Like anon said, it's everything he wrote and it's great.
The Complete Poems of Melville is the only proper way to read Clarel, as other editions are chopped up and what not.