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Wiki Project Reflection

For a class project, we were split up into groups to create a Wikipedia article. Each group was then assigned a book to read either, The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, Indemnity Only by Sarah Paretsky, Cotton Comes to Harlem … Continue reading Continue reading

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Rough Draft

For a class project, we were split up into groups to create a Wikipedia article. Each group was then assigned a book to read either, The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, Indemnity Only by Sarah Paretsky, Cotton Comes to Harlem … Continue reading Continue reading

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Gravedigger man and Coffin boy

In the beginning of the story, the two cops, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed, seem to be less than average african american cops. They fight with one another, they choke women, and in many ways are extremely unprofessional. However, towards … Continue reading Continue reading

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem, written by Chester Himes, is a violent tale of two black detectives working to maintain order in a city run by white people in 1965. The detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed, are somewhat humorous in … Continue reading Continue reading

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Throw Momma from the Train

I have found the book “Strangers on a Train” by Patricia Highsmith to be quite amusing. It is an intriguing tale of two men partnered to murder the others target so that neither gets caught as no motives are present. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Mildred Fierce

In the beginning of Mildred Pierce, written by James M. Cain, I was not very intrigued by the story. It is no doubt a tremendous book that was very well put together, but it is indeed much slower paced than … Continue reading Continue reading

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Classic Noir

In my honest opinion, I believe that the film, “Double Indemnity” written by Billy Wilder, is the most hardboiled story we have studied so far this semester. The idea of pretending to love someone to get close enough to kill … Continue reading Continue reading

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Red Crossing vs. Millers Harvest

The first similarity between these two stories is that I found them both very intriguing and fun to break down. They were both witty, gruesome, suspenseful, and quite hardboiled. But my favorite part of both stories were the main characters, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Writing about a writer’s writer.

Inception? No, its just “Ask the Dust” by John Fante, and it is quite an interesting book. Not so much plot-wise, but more so with the characters. Arturo Bandini, the main character of the story, is a wannabe writer who’s … Continue reading Continue reading

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Dinah Grand

When Dinah was introduced to the story, it made the book a lot more interesting and really attracted a lot of my attention. Though the second half of Red Harvest became harder to understand as the book went on, Dinah … Continue reading Continue reading

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