I love Crusie, but yeah, not so good for people squeamish about sex in their fiction.

And Bet Me is out in paperback now, right?

Bet Me is out in paperback, as well as a reprint of Charlie All Night, which has been out of print for a while.

I gave my mom a copy of Bet Me and mentioned there was a lot of explicit sex. She told me she was glad I thought she was mature enough to deal with it.

Sometimes you can tell we're related.

I noticed my grandmother had Faking It in her pile of books on tape, and asked her what she thought. She was HORRIFIED. "I didn't realize the title referred to her orgasms! And all the sex!"

Huh. I just listened to Faking It in my car (when I drove up to Columbus, I needed something to listen to, and I have to get books that I've already read, because if it's new to me, I might get so absorbed in it that I'll drive off the road), and there was very little sex. One of the sex scenes was left out totally, and the others were very edited.

(Plus, the title's about faking art, too. But then again, nobody wants to argue with Jesse's grandma.)

She liked the part that was about faking art. And, yeah, she's generally anti-reading-or-hearing-about-sex. At all.

I didn't skim Antarctica both because I didn't know about it ahead of time, and well, you know I read crime a lot, right? He would have had had to *entertain* himself with one of the corpses to squick me. Or cut it up, Lehane-style.(Dennis Lehane isn't happy unless he's dismembering some poor bastard...it's a thing.)Hey, is anybody in here a Pelecanos fan? Because, you know, he writes for "The Wire" now and I liked "King Suckerman" and one I just finished called "Hell to Pay" and a friend read that in my lj and said "Where should I start?" and I had to say "I don't know." so I figured somebody in Lit Buff might, because I think somebody mentioned him once.

Heh. I just saw "Day After Tomorrow" during Thanksgiving break, and was most horrified by the destruction of the library and the burning of the books (though I figured there'd surely be lots of duplicates to burn).

I looove Pelecanos. If you want to read about the Greeks chronologically, you'd have to start with The Big Blowdown, which takes place in the 40s and 50s. But I vote, just read them as you find them.

His PI ones are good, too. And he's not as depressed or invested in the "when you have to kill every motherfucker in the room," as Dennis Lehane. I love a tormented hero, you know I do, but yikes. It's weird to know how many parts a human body can make.

Excellently, I just yesterday caught up on a hell of a lot of posts in this thread, and made some notes while I was doing it, so went to the used bookstore today and picked up "Shards of Honor" (which I know I've read, but not in the last ten years), "Ill Wind", and "The Rift", along with a couple other things.