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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 22, 2008 17:33:26 GMT
discovered him with 'the mcdead' (which i thoroughly enjoyed) saw one of his on a second hand stall tday but it £4 so i left it.
any fans??
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 22, 2008 21:00:12 GMT
Not yet Ben, but weirdly I've picked up two of his books recently (one is The McDead) because they looked like yer old-fashioned pulp novels. Worth a go, then?
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 22, 2008 21:34:53 GMT
^definetly worth a go, and a very unique style.
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Post by benedictjjones on Apr 9, 2009 12:50:01 GMT
bruens stories in both the 'brooklyn noir' and 'london noir' anthologies are pretty good as well. i might try and pick up 'dublin noir' which he edited but 'birmingham noir' editted by joel lane is giving me a stronger siren call!
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 16, 2009 12:04:37 GMT
Finally finished a book - Taming The Alien by Ken Bruen. Great stuff.
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 18, 2009 13:12:58 GMT
is that the first of the books with RnB in?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 21, 2009 8:13:16 GMT
No, Ben, it's the second. I have (or did have) the third The McDead. Must have a look.
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 29, 2009 16:39:00 GMT
the mcdead is the only one i have read, i keep meaning to go back and try and get the others.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 29, 2009 19:25:59 GMT
Loving The McDead. Seems there's a couple of others with these characters out there, with great one word pulp titles like Blitz and Vixen.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 30, 2009 11:31:19 GMT
The McDead - Ken Bruen. DoNotPress 2000.
Considering this was written in 2000, it felt to me like a throwback. Short, manic, enjoyable, nuts, cops acting as badly if not worse than the crims they're chasing, it was great. The Sweeney for the noughties on speed. Great characters - DS Brant is someone you just wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of - the whole thing just zooms along, all manner of odd events dovetailing nicely. I enjoyed its predecessor, Taming The Alien as much, and need to seek out the others. The chapter titles are incredible.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jul 23, 2010 21:06:04 GMT
^and brant apparantly makes inpsector in the later books!!!
i finished 'blitz' in a morning and thought it was even better than 'the mcdead', brant is brilliant (again) and the development of the other coppers is great.
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Post by benedictjjones on May 11, 2011 11:28:04 GMT
apparantly they've filmed 'Blitz' with Jason Statham as Brand...
read 'the gaurds', about bruens ex-guarda PI. good stuff but not as manic and great as the RnB books.
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 25, 2012 20:36:48 GMT
ken bruen's 'Jack Taylor' PI novels, set in Galway, are some of the darkest books I've ever read - only halfway through the series and can't see how he can get any 'noirer'!
read a couple of the standalones - 'the hackman blues' was very good. dark and horrible!
really enjoyed the film version of 'london boulevard' but didn't enjoy the film of 'blitz' at all...
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