Rob Price
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2009 August 22 • Saturday

Here's the novelization of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

I like the bit about the "alliance of hate". The author, Joe Millard, also wrote several original novels about Clint Eastwood's character. I bought some in a used bookstore in Toronto. I was looking at them this morning and considering adding them to the list of books I'd like to read.

I first have to finish re-reading The Man in the High Castle, then read two books that I recently borrowed, Cockfighter from my friend Dan and Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home from my brother.

Then I'll have to read the Flannery O'Connor biography that Alice recently gave me, but before I do that I have to finish Stuart Galbraith IV's dual biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. I've been reading it a few pages at a time for months.

After all that I'll want to re-read Flicker and something by Dashiell Hammett, probably either The Dain Curse or The Maltese Falcon. Balthazar, the second novel in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, is also pulling at my sleeve.

Before I accomplish all of this I'm bound to be interrupted by the publication of Nabokov's unfinished The Original of Laura, which I will read at the earliest opportunity despite my strong feeling that the manuscript should have been cremated along with its author's body.