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D.F. Lewis' NEMO 5 was my favorite book of 2005, and I didn't even know who the authors were.

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G.S., I've not seen Double Indemnity but I enjoyed the novel. And I saw Strangers on an Train which also has a Chandler screenplay.

Swans, thinking about it I read Sin City: Hell and Back last year and was really disappointed. Miller really seems to have lost his way with this series. Even the artwork -- usually the saving grace -- looked awful. Not that I suppose he's too bothered, what with two sequels lined up to the already lucrative movie adaptation.

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Stu,

I implore you. Get thee to the video store. Double Indemnity is the best of the many James M. Cain film adaptations. Barbara Stanwyck's goofy nose has never looked sexier.

Realizing My Goofy Nose Fetish,
Phil

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G.S., I'll keep an eye out for it.

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Stu, I decided to forgo the rest of the Miller series after "Family Values" and "Bullets, Broads", etc., which were OK.

I love Marv! Thanks for confirming I shouldn't keep spending on the rest.

And take my advice along with that of G.S., see Double Indemnity. You must get past the image of Fred McMurray as the pop on My Three Sons, you see...

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Swans, it's okay, I've never seen My Three Sons so I can avoid that problem.

Btw, has anyone here read John Connolly? Private eye stories with supernatural overtones.

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I'd like to add Jonathon Carroll's Glass Soup to the list of best reads. I can't think of anything else. 2005 marked the first time I read Brendan Connell, Matt Cardin, and Mark Samuels. I can't wait to read more these gents.

Cheers!

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I like threads like this because I like to see what people are reading. I haven't kept track of the things I read last year, but some I remember are:

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
God's Defenders by S.T. Joshi
The Shudder Pulps by Robert Kenneth Jones
Book of Evidence by John Banville
Bruges La Morte by Georges Rodenbach
Best of D.F. Lewis plus stories from Weirdmonger
White Hands and Other Stories by Mark Samuels
Black Altars by Mark Samuels
Divinations of the Deep by Matt Cardin plus "Teeth"
The Sound of His Horn by Sarban
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe
The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
Lights Out in the Reptile House by Jim Shepard
Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson plus some short stories