{"id":29377,"date":"2021-12-21T07:46:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29377"},"modified":"2021-12-20T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:35:26","slug":"a-quiz-but-not-a-definitive-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/a-quiz-but-not-a-definitive-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quiz, But Not A Definitive Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, The Mystery Bookshelf posted a four-part series entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/henryct.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/27\/20-must-read-hard-boiled-classics-%E2%80%93-part-1-of-4\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">20 Must Read Hard Boiled Classics<\/a> (hey, I&#8217;m late to the party, but OregonMuse just posted it on the world-famous Ace of Spades HQ Book Thread <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/397002.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">this week<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So of course I decided to turn it into a quiz to find out how many of them I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>The results are not pretty.  I have highlighted the titles of the ones that I have read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Red Harvest<\/em><\/strong> by Dashiell Hammett<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Maltese Falcon<\/em><\/strong> by Dashiell Hammett<\/li>\n<li><em>The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/em><\/strong> by James M. Cain<\/li>\n<li><em>Double Indemnity<\/em><\/strong> by James M. Cain<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Big Sleep<\/em><\/strong> by Raymond Chandler<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Long Goodbye<\/em><\/strong> by Raymond Chandler<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>I, The Jury<\/em><\/strong> by Mickey Spillane<\/li>\n<li><em>It&#8217;s a Lonely Place<\/em> by Dorothy B. Hughes<\/li>\n<li><em>The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/em> by Patricia Highsmith<\/li>\n<li><em>The Killer Inside Me<\/em> by Jim Thompson<\/li>\n<li><em>Pop. 1280<\/em> by Jim Thompson<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Drowning Pool<\/em><\/strong> by Ross MacDonald<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Chill<\/em><\/strong> by Ross MacDonald<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Deep-Blue Goodbye<\/em><\/strong> by John D. MacDonald<\/li>\n<li><em>The Last Good Kiss<\/em> by James Crumley<\/li>\n<li><em>Eight Million Ways To Die<\/em> by Lawrence Block<\/li>\n<li><em>When The Sacred Ginmill Closes<\/em> by Lawrence Block<\/li>\n<li><em>Miami Blues<\/em> by Charles Willeford<\/li>\n<li><em>Black Cherry Blues<\/em> by James Lee Burke<\/li>\n<li><em>L.A. Confidential<\/em> by James Ellroy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>40%,  If you throw in movies, I would be all the way up to 45% (unless you counted varied renditions of <em>The Big Sleep<\/em> and <em>The Long Goodbye<\/em> as extra credit).<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure if I have any of the ones I have not read that I do not have on my to-read shelves.  I have some James M. Cain&#8211;<em>Mildred Pierce<\/em>, which I started once but did not finish yet&#8211;but not the two listed here.  I bought a couple of James Lee Burke books <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/good-book-hunting-may-5-and-6-2020-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>, but not <em>Black Cherry Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I would like some extra credit for reading the complete works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald as well as extensively in John D. MacDonald (all the Travis McGee novels, to which the <em>Deep-Blue Goodbye<\/em> belongs) and Mickey Spillane.<\/p>\n<p>What would I add to this list?  I don&#8217;t know that I could right away.  Perhaps after some thought, reflection, and perusing of my shelves.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t have time for that now.  <\/p>\n<p>I will maybe keep an eye out for some of these books, but I would expect to find many of these out of print, or at least out of the print that would put them on the cheap bookshelves I haunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, The Mystery Bookshelf posted a four-part series entitled 20 Must Read Hard Boiled Classics (hey, I&#8217;m late to the party, but OregonMuse just posted it on the world-famous Ace of Spades HQ Book Thread this week). So of course I decided to turn it into a quiz to find out how many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29379,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29377\/revisions\/29379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}