On the Ropes

    I just hope he could find somewhere where he could find a little peace. ..... Somewhere between nowhere and goodbye ......

FX Toole

FX Toole

       It's not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.

F.X Toole

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Raging Bull
1980

Hymns to the Ring

Fat City - Leonard Gardner
The Professional - WC Heinz
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own - Jonathan Rendall
Rope Burns - FX Toole
The Devil and Sonny Liston - Nick Tosches
Great Men Die Twice - Mark Kram
Shadow Box - George Plimpton
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine - Thom Jones
The Harder They Fall - Budd Schulberg
The Set Up - James Moncure March
The Sweet Science -AJ Leibling
Fifty Grand - Ernest Hemingway
The Fight - Norman Mailer
The Devil's Stocking - Nelson Algren
The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
Pound for Pound - FX Toole
The Loser - Gay Talese

Best recently read stuff

Best recently read novel would prob be Street 8 by Douglas Fairbairn highly recommended for it's original storyline and unpredictable nature- it reminds me of Willefords Miami setting for the Hoke moseley series.

 Also despite being aware of George Pelecanos for a while i'm just working my way through his Washington dc Derek Strange books- Best so far is Hard Revolution set amidst the '68 city riots.

Having just started this blog here's a number of slabs of Noir reading (some very loosely Noir)

The Burglar-David Goodis
My Dark Places-James Ellroy
Nightwebs-Cornell Woolrich
Doghouse Roses-Steve Earle
Music of Chance-Paul Auster
Unknown man no-89-Elmore Leonard
Big Gold Dream-Chester Himes
Jones Men-Vern Smith
Playback- Raymond Chandler
Shoedog-George Pelecanos
They shoot horses don't they- Horace McCoy
Rope Burns-FX O'Toole
The Hustler-Walter Tevis
Grifters-Jim Thompson
Pick up-Charles Willeford
Papers of Tony Vietch-William Mcllvaney
In cold blood-Truman Capote
Fat City -Leonard Gardiner
Narrowback-Michael Ledwidge
Looking for a Street-Charles Willeford
Fast One-Paul Cain
Post Office- Charles Bukowski
L.A Diaries-James Brown
Mr Blue-memoirs of a renegade- Edward Bunker
You play the Red and the Black comes up- Eric Knight


Best recently viewed Noir DVD's

Consequences of Love (Italian)
Third Man
No country for old men
Red Lights (Feux Rouges) (French)
Rock'n Rolla
Spartan
Odd Man Out
Blast of Silence
Red Badge of Courage
Rope
Key Largo
Strangers on a Train
Red Belt
State of Play (uk tv series)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Un Flic (French)
After Hours
Just Another Love story (Danish)
Rear Window
The Verdict
Music of Chance
Body Heat
Armee des Ombres (French)
Low winter Sun (uk tv movie)