- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing (16 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841192880
- ISBN-13: 978-1841192888
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 4.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,173,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...
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Maxim Jakubowski is the editor of numerous Mammoths on the Constable & Robinson list. He lives in London where he owns and runs the world-famous Murder One bookshop. He also reviews new crime titles for the Guardian.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Actually, I'd go 3 1/2 stars on this one, 29 July 2004
By D. Hughes "Dennis" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Paperback)
There are some good stories in this collection but I would recommend reading "The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction" first. Once you have read those stories, come back to this collection. It's not as good as the other collection, but it'll help "fill the corners" in your appetite for pulp.
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Ya, Quick Dose of Pulp, 1 Dec 2007
By Deacon Priest - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Paperback)
For those addicted to Pulp, this anthology rocks. Great Detective fiction mysteries and action. Loaded with Pulp. Gives you your quick fix. Good Read
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Hits Outway the Misses...Just., 2 April 2008
By Rathko - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Paperback)
A hit-and-miss affair with enough hits to make the whole thing worth while. The more dated and preposterous the language the better. There's much fun to be had with dialogue that unconsciously summons the voices of Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. While the audience for this kind of anthology is interested purely in the real pulp fiction of the 1930s and 40s, the collection is sprinkled with a few more modern pieces. While many of them are perfectly serviceable stories, it's a mystery as to why they're included. When the reader simply wants to experience the best that 'Black Mask' and 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine' had to offer, it seems odd to include such unwanted intrusions on the reader's nostalgia.
Many reviewers here take issue with the inclusion of 'The Gangsta Wore Red', a novella by Michael Guinzburg, scion of the multi-million dollar Viking Publishing Guinzburgs. Though not for the feint of heart, his writing is unquestionably in the pulp fiction style, albeit by way of 1970's style exploitation. If Golden Era writers could have gotten away with such liberties they would have done. Though his work is not as well known in America as it is in France and Britain, Guinzburg's an excellent writer. While there may be certain ethical questions about the very fact of a privileged white man writing a first-person narrative about being a poor, African-American criminal, the fact remains that the novella is very good and Guinzburg's writing far superior to that of the genuine pulp authors that bookend his work here.
Not a bad collection, but you miss the smell of cheap ink on yellowing paper.
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