Sweet Dream, Silver Screen by Moxie Mezcal

[Moejoe]

I read this a couple of days back and didn't get around to making a recommendation. So here I am wholeheartedly recommending this story, and hoping there'll be a lot more from Moxie Mezcal in the future

A young woman searches for her missing twin sister in a foreign country called America. On the road, she encounters a series of strangers who help her navigate its topography, including a cowboy in a pink Cadillac, a sadistic law enforcement agent, a pulp fiction novelist, the regulars at a nuclear bomb-themed dive bar, and a man who befriends mannequins.

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And only 99c from Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Dream-Si...2857273&sr=8-1

[dreams]

Thanks for the recommendation. I had looked at her book, but I haven't read it yet.

Your link to feedbooks goes to ...
Nuit sur la plaine
by Irène Delse

I used the below link to get to Moxie's book..

http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7386

[zelda_pinwheel]

for info, Irène Delse is also a member of mobileread but i think she only posts in french.

thanks for the recommendation, moejoe ! i've had this loaded on my liseuse for some time now, i will move it up nearer the top of my list.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by dreams

Thanks for the recommendation. I had looked at her book, but I haven't read it yet.

Your link to feedbooks goes to ...
Nuit sur la plaine
by Irène Delse

I used the below link to get to Moxie's book..

http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7386

Thanks for the correction Dreams, missed a number off the end when I was copypasting

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

for info, Irène Delse is also a member of mobileread but i think she only posts in french.

thanks for the recommendation, moejoe ! i've had this loaded on my liseuse for some time now, i will move it up nearer the top of my list.

Damn, I really have to learn another language soonish, there's tons of fiction I'm missing out on.

[zelda_pinwheel]

yeah, cause you're almost out of all the english-language books, right ?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yeah, cause you're almost out of all the english-language books, right ?

I'm greedy when it comes to fiction. I just keep wondering about other languages popular fiction and if it's any better than the tripe we get in the UK most of the time. Which native French authors are popular? And, are they available in translation?

[zelda_pinwheel]

oh my, do you *really* want to ask me that ??? i won't tell you which are *popular* necessarily (i don't really follow the trends much) but i could give you a list longer than your arm of writers i love. i don't know if they are all translated though. here are a few of my favourites if you want to scout around :

Raymond Queneau (a veritable silversmith of words, hats off to his translator if there is one for the challenge alone) for a short one you could try "exercises de style" or "zazie dans le métro" which i recently re-read, my god, the man was brilliant, and it's great to re-read it because now that i'm older (and more worldly ) i noticed dozens of jokes and allusions that somehow when right over my head when i first read it. zazie was also made into a film.

Léo Malet : wrote the Nestor Burma detective series "Nouveaux Mystères de Paris", one of my all-time favourite detective writers, sadly, not yet available in ebooks. another genius of language and little jokes (many of which i noticed / understood only after several readings).

Boris Vian : a true genius, writer, poet, musician, jazz chronicler, translator of Raymond Chandler into french... try "l'écume des jours" which is probably his most famous book but he also wrote a metric tonne of short stories.

Fred Vargas : definitely translated, not sure if she's available digitally. she writes mysteries as well, i LOVE her work, another excellent wordsmith and very philosophical, her mysteries are gripping and intelligent with lots of strange digressions into random (or not-so-random) musings. thinking about it, i suspect you would really like her work, definitely take a look.

on feedbooks, i doubt that most of the contemporary writers have been translated (there are quite a few of them and many of them are members here too, like Irène Delse), but some of the classics are, like émile gaboriau (father of the detective genre ! yep, before conan doyle...), i discovered him there and he's quite good. watch out for "Monsieur Lecoq", it's over 700 pages long, starts out a mystery, then goes into historical melo-drama for 2/3rds of the book and the mystery is resolved in the last 2 pages.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh my, do you *really* want to ask me that ??? i won't tell you which are *popular* necessarily (i don't really follow the trends much) but i could give you a list longer than your arm of writers i love. i don't know if they are all translated though. here are a few of my favourites if you want to scout around :

Raymond Queneau (a veritable silversmith of words, hats off to his translator if there is one for the challenge alone) for a short one you could try "exercises de style" or "zazie dans le métro" which i recently re-read, my god, the man was brilliant, and it's great to re-read it because now that i'm older (and more worldly ) i noticed dozens of jokes and allusions that somehow when right over my head when i first read it. zazie was also made into a film.

Léo Malet : wrote the Nestor Burma detective series "Nouveaux Mystères de Paris", one of my all-time favourite detective writers, sadly, not yet available in ebooks. another genius of language and little jokes (many of which i noticed / understood only after several readings).

Boris Vian : a true genius, writer, poet, musician, jazz chronicler, translator of Raymond Chandler into french... try "l'écume des jours" which is probably his most famous book but he also wrote a metric tonne of short stories.

Fred Vargas : definitely translated, not sure if she's available digitally. she writes mysteries as well, i LOVE her work, another excellent wordsmith and very philosophical, her mysteries are gripping and intelligent with lots of strange digressions into random (or not-so-random) musings. thinking about it, i suspect you would really like her work, definitely take a look.

on feedbooks, i doubt that most of the contemporary writers have been translated (there are quite a few of them and many of them are members here too, like Irène Delse), but some of the classics are, like émile gaboriau (father of the detective genre ! yep, before conan doyle...), i discovered him there and he's quite good. watch out for "Monsieur Lecoq", it's over 700 pages long, starts out a mystery, then goes into historical melo-drama for 2/3rds of the book and the mystery is resolved in the last 2 pages.

See, these are names I would have never heard before, and they all sound great to read. All I wish now is that I could read faster, have more hours in every day, never sleep and..well, that would be enough

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh my, do you *really* want to ask me that ??? i won't tell you which are *popular* necessarily (i don't really follow the trends much) but i could give you a list longer than your arm of writers i love. i don't know if they are all translated though. here are a few of my favourites if you want to scout around :

Raymond Queneau (a veritable silversmith of words, hats off to his translator if there is one for the challenge alone) for a short one you could try "exercises de style" or "zazie dans le métro" which i recently re-read, my god, the man was brilliant, and it's great to re-read it because now that i'm older (and more worldly ) i noticed dozens of jokes and allusions that somehow when right over my head when i first read it. zazie was also made into a film.

Léo Malet : wrote the Nestor Burma detective series "Nouveaux Mystères de Paris", one of my all-time favourite detective writers, sadly, not yet available in ebooks. another genius of language and little jokes (many of which i noticed / understood only after several readings).

Boris Vian : a true genius, writer, poet, musician, jazz chronicler, translator of Raymond Chandler into french... try "l'écume des jours" which is probably his most famous book but he also wrote a metric tonne of short stories.

Fred Vargas : definitely translated, not sure if she's available digitally. she writes mysteries as well, i LOVE her work, another excellent wordsmith and very philosophical, her mysteries are gripping and intelligent with lots of strange digressions into random (or not-so-random) musings. thinking about it, i suspect you would really like her work, definitely take a look.

on feedbooks, i doubt that most of the contemporary writers have been translated (there are quite a few of them and many of them are members here too, like Irène Delse), but some of the classics are, like émile gaboriau (father of the detective genre ! yep, before conan doyle...), i discovered him there and he's quite good. watch out for "Monsieur Lecoq", it's over 700 pages long, starts out a mystery, then goes into historical melo-drama for 2/3rds of the book and the mystery is resolved in the last 2 pages.

What about Philippe Claudel - just read a review of his new book (Brodeck) in the NYT today - sounded very intriguing.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

What about Philippe Claudel - just read a review of his new book (Brodeck) in the NYT today - sounded very intriguing.

i've not read anything by claudel ; i think he's probably a great writer, but one from whose books you don't escape indemn. if you do read brodeck, i'd be very interested to know what you think of it.

[Moxie Mezcal]

Thank you for the kind words, Moejoe.

[zelda_pinwheel]

hi Moxie, i just noticed one of your posts, i thought that was you ! welcome to the forum ! we're always really happy to meet authors around here ; take a look in the writers' forum, we'd love to hear about what you're working on. very glad to have you here ! don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions, people around here are very friendly and helpful. you can also start a thread in the introductions forum if you like.

[Moxie Mezcal]

Thanks for the warm welcome, Zelda. I hadn't noticed the introduction forum before. I'll hop over and post a little about myself.