A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
By Lawrence Block
A Matthew Scudder mystery, and I'll definitely be looking for more of them to read. Complex plotting, great characters, moral philosophizing, and a violent conclusion.
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#matthewscudder
#lawrenceblock
#mystery
#crime
#thriller
#booksky
Stumbled on this post as I was searching to see if #LawrenceBlock was on BSky. Shame he’s not because this is a perfect example of his wit, which then sits alongside his crime intrigue to make him, IMHO, the best crime writer. So pleased I found his work years ago. I recommend him to you all.
A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF by LAWRENCE BLOCK and a cup of coffee
Reading A Drop of the Hard Stuff by #LawrenceBlock makes me miss NYC, but that may be because I always miss NYC
#Booksky 📚
“Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.” — Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies
#QOTD #LawrenceBlock #Quote #Uncertainty #Quotation
2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 254: #DentroLaNotte (in English #IntoTheNight) by #CornellWoolrich
A #dark and #gloomy #story that starts with an attempted suicide and continues with a #murder.
Oddly, #Woolrich passed away before finishing it and #LawrenceBlock was the one who completed it.
“I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk, either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.” — Lawrence Block , The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
#qotd #LawrenceBlock #quote #Cats #hat
So reading Random Walk by #LawrenceBlock and it’s not his usual crime fiction fare. It really feels like he read The Stand and was like “I can do something like this”
#booksky
The shit a man never see is the shit he is standing in. #LawrenceBlock - The Triumph of Evil
#resist #fight
Reading a good #LawrenceBlock page Turner #HitandRun
Keller hasn’t been my favorite of Blocks characters but I’ve been gripped on this one. Especially when he had his #stampcollection taken from him. As a collector of things. I felt that tragedy
The Night and the Music, Lawrence Block [Telemachus Press, 2011].
A collection of stories featuring former NYPD cop-turned-unlicensed-private-eye Matt Scudder, the series character from numerous Block novels, including A Walk Among the Tombstones, adapted as a film with Liam Neeson. #LawrenceBlock
How lucky am I that my favorite authors have such a large bibliography. Sometimes I wish I could delete all of @stephenking.bsky.social and #LawrenceBlock from my head so I could reread them with fresh eyes #booksky
This past week, #LawrenceBlock rereleased an article he wrote for Writer’s Digest in the mid-70’s, dealing with his alcoholism at the time. It’s a short piece — roughly ten pages — but an interesting read for its honesty. Also includes a brief intro and excerpts of other books.
This just came in the mail, and I suspect these three novels will end up being the last three novels I read this year. #LawrenceBlock #DonaldWestlake #HellcatsandHoneygirls
thank god, he is alive and well, i think. i haven't read any of his works for ages and i haven't found another writer like him too. do you know of any other crime novelists who have block's intelligence, humor, depth and lightness? #LawrenceBlock #crimefiction
