Raymond Chandler’s guide to street, hoodlum, and prison lingo
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#2It's so sad that he burnt most of his notebooks and only two remain :(
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#3Under possible book titles ” All Guns are Loaded” ah, the prequel to the best seller ”Finger off the trigger”. Would have liked to read that.
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#4So interesting, similarly I wish we had some of John Fante’s notes.
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#5See also Edward Bunker, an ex-con who wrote gripping prison and crime novels after spending 18 years in and out of prison and other institutions
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#6This will be helpful to Hunter Biden someday.
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#7Recommend a chandler or comparable book? I read one at random years ago and it was fun
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#8These are always fun to read. People are endlessly creative with language. Proper English can get a little dull. I was surprised at how many I knew!
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#9Recommend a chandler or comparable book? I read one at random years ago and it was fun
If you want to try some modern-er noir, American Tabloid by James Ellroy is a wild ride.
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#10William S. Burroughs' first work Junky came with a glossary like this. It was published as a trashy train station book rather than capital-A art, so it was necessary to explain words like "croaker" and "cool" to the commuter audience.