Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Criminals, Fiction, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
"Eddie Coyle is a small-time punk with a big-time problem - who to sell out to avoid being sent up again. Eddie works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs.
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Cool, bleak, classical in form and earnest.
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On Open Library, 10 have read it and 45 want to.
“JACKIE BROWN at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.”
American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor. He authored more than thirty books, including Bomber's Law, Trust, and Kennedy for the Defense, and is best known for his bestselling crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which established the Boston noir genre of gangster tales that spawned several popular films by followers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this George V. Higgins's best work?”
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“Is it the best criminals book of its decade?”
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“Would The friends of Eddie Coyle hit harder if it came out today rather than in 1972?”
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