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Penzler Pick, April 2000: It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory.
Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner's wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.
Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain's spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain's characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome. --Otto Penzler
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"A good, swift, violent story." --Dashiell Hammett
"A poet of the tabloid murder." --Edmund Wilson
"A poet of the tabloid murder." --Edmund Wilson
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I finished reading The Postman Always Rings Twice a week ago, and i was astonished at how a short book could pack such power, you can read it in half a day...you could understand why he did what he did. Cora was beautiful,loving and longing for a way out of her desperate situation...Frank found in Cora his reason for living and dying...The prose in this book hits you like a machine gun, tight and clean; all of the supporting characters serve a purpose..Cain shows you how greed can affect anyone, not just the main characters...I've often wondered if a woman was worth dying for or even killing for..this book tells you what a man would do for love
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I was stunned when I finished this book. This novel is one of the "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th century?" It doesn't even compare to a variety of mysteries written by Agatha Christie (i.e. "Murder on the Nile," "And Then There Were None," or "Murder on the Orient Express"). Moreover, it pales if placed against Dashiel Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon." It's joke comparing Cain to Hammett
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Two weeks ago, I read "Double Indemnity" and was blown away! It was the first hard boiled book I ever read and couldn't wait to read "Postman." Unfortunately, it wasn't what I expected. The characters are idiots compared to Walter Huff and Phylis Nirdlinger, the murder was boring, and it pales beside "Double Indemnity." It's unfortunate that Cain was too busy writing about LA to ever mention his native Baltimore... Anyway, if are just starting with James' books, like I was 2 weeks ago, read "Postman" before "Indemnity" to prevent the disapointment I felt.
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probably scandalous when it was written, but tame by today's standards
Frank Chambers is a vagabond, here today and somewhere else tomorrow. When he tries to cheat a Greek restaurant owner for a meal he is unexpectely offered a job. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Juni 2009 von Kurt Keller
It Has It All!
Since I love the movie version of this story so much, I decided to give the book a try. And I'm glad I did. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 2000 von "labibliophile"
Great, pulpy trash
Okay, the story's really sensational. And yes, some of it isunbelievable. And it's short--shorter than most Stephen Kingnovellas. But what fun it was to read! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. April 2000 von Ray Smith
Who Really Killed Whom?
That's the question here. Because this story passes by your eyes so quickly, it's easy to miss all of its possibilities. There's a lot more to it! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. März 2000 von LeftCoastLiggy
A guilty pleasure -- Justice does not equal Truth
Say you were reading the thoughts of OJ Simpson. Similarly, James Cain has given us the thoughts of a man driven by passion to possess a woman and willing to pay any price to do... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
THIS BOOK LEAVES NOTHING TO THE IMAGINATION!!
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE WAS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS IVE READ THIS YEAR.CAIN REALLY DOES NO HOW TO HOOK AN AUDIENCE WITH HIS VERY VIVID IMAGINATION. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. April 1999 veröffentlicht
awesome
this book is a quick read and for the amount of time it takes, it's impressive how much of a story can be told by so few pages. i highly recommend it.
Am 8. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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Veröffentlicht am 11. Dezember 1998 von dm984101@mserv.cc.seikei.ac.jp ¿i¿x¿¿¿¿¿¿ Abe)
Not a word wasted
This is the very best in a genre that is known for tight, spare prose and gritty edginess. Cain is both a writer's writer and a poet of the streets. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
Lust and Murder at the All-Nite Diner
In the reptilian world of James M Cain, there is only a blink separating the urge from the act.
A drifter gets a job at an isolated diner/gas station and sinks quickly into a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. September 1997 von James Paris
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