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Habitual Reader Profiles - Page 1
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Name: Tim Wohlforth |
| City & State: Ashland, Oregon | |
| Vocation / Avocation: Writer | |
| Website: www.timwohlforth.com |
Why I'm a Habitual Reader:
I have been reading primarily mystery fiction my whole adult life. There is always a book by my bedside that I am reading as well as a pile lined up for when that book is finished. I also read two daily newspapers, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, hang out in bookstores, follow several mystery blogs, and writer mysteries, both novels and short stories.
My List of Ten: Top Ten Noir Mysteries
1. The
Maltese Falcon
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Someone killed his partner. Sam Spade had to do something.
2. The
Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Whatever happened to the Chauffeur?
3. The Chill
Author: Ross MacDonald
History
can kill you
4. I, The
Jury
Author: Mickey Spillane
Mike Hammer
takes it personal, very personal
5. The
Constant Gardener
Author: John LeCarré
International intrigue did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall
6. The
Concrete Blonde
Author: Michael Connelly
You can never tell what you might dig up in LA
7. Mystic
River
Author: Dennis Lehane
Some things in Boston cannot be gentrified
8. Gorky
Park
Author: Martin Cruz Smith
I’ll never wear sable again
9. Resurrection
Man
Author: Ian Rankin
Can Rebus ever be rehabilitated? And do we want him to be?
10. The White
Lioness
Author: Henning Mankell
It gets quite dark in Sweden in the winter
Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.
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