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Title: The Second Half of the Double Feature by Charles Willeford ISBN: 1-930997-29-9 Publisher: Wits End Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An uneven collection.
Comment: As a huge Charles Willeford fan, I try to read everything by the master I can get my hands on. Taken as a whole, this collection of 25 short works does not come up to his usual high standards. Some of the stories miss the mark by either lacking a sufficient point (eg. The Old Man at the Bridge, A Matter of Taste, Sentences) or in the case of Everybody's Metamorphosis, trying too hard. Six or 7 of the included works do qualify as engaging reading. An unfinished novel entitled The First Five in Line... is vintage Willeford and likely would have been a critical and popular success withstanding the test of time had it been completed. Also among my favorites is the hilarious chronicle of a one sided correspondence by a delusional lumberyard owner to a well known syndicated columnist(The Man who Loved Ann Landers). It is very well crafted. The paperback edition contains several typographical errors that are a minor distraction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Willeford collection
Comment: I got an advance copy of this and it is absolutely brilliant. I've read most of his novels and yet this manages to catch me off guard. It's not strictly a crime collection, even though it is very recognizably the work of this offbeat master. What's most surprising about it is some of the unpublished stuff: it's just as good as the stories that have been printed before (and none of this is easily available). If you like Willeford, this is essential reading. If you're scratching your head wondering who this guy is... Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino seem to love his stuff, and this is a great introduction to his body of work. It's funny, raunchy, eccentric, but it's above all insightful into the motivations and actions of the characters, and his dialogue is brilliant. Definitely worth checking out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Willeford
Comment: I received an advance copy of this collection and if you like Willeford, you're absolutely going to love this selection. It has 25 stories, almost none of which I had read before, and the variety in these stories is -- to put it mildly -- surprising. I wasn't expecting Willeford to write about a male "Tupperware Party", but it makes perfect sense when I read it.
It's laugh-out-loud funny in spots and Willeford's characters are brilliant as always. He has rich dialogue, and the situations are either well plotted or perfectly observed. There's more insightful and wry commentary on male-female relationships here than there is violent crime (though yes, there's that too), and the stuff that was unpublished before is just as good as the rest of it. I can see why Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino love his work -- let's just hope Curtis Hanson makes those Hoke Moseley movies someday soon. Essential reading.
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Title: The Machine in Ward Eleven by Charles Ray Willeford ISBN: 1568582102 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Writing & Other Blood Sports by Charles Willeford ISBN: 0939767341 Publisher: Dennis McMillan Pubns Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Collected Memoirs of Charles Willeford: I Was Looking for a Street/Something About a Soldier by Charles Wileford, Charles Willeford ISBN: 1584440538 Publisher: Disc Us Books Inc Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Best News About Radiation Therapy by Carol L. Kornmehl ISBN: 0972189602 Publisher: Academic Radiation Oncology Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford ISBN: 0786706686 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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