- 100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir, 60-51:
http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com/2010/12/100-greatest-posters-of-film-noir-60-51.html # - I just learned that Joe Gores left us a few days ago. Rest in peace, Joe.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mcoggins/detail?entry_id=80993 # - Nick at Existential Ennui is trying to track down information on Parker cover artist Stephen Hall: http://bit.ly/f2Eg6u #
- A first-timer grapples with the character of Parker (comic book version, but the misgivings would apply to print):
http://bit.ly/eYuF0x # - Duane Swierczynski's essay on The Hunter for Thrillers: 100 Must Reads now readable online: http://bit.ly/eLfB9m #
- 100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir, 50-41:
http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com/2011/01/100-greatest-posters-of-film-noir-50-41.html # - Brian De Palma to direct a Parker movie?
http://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/blog/index.blog/1422724/de-palma-attached-to-parker-project/ # - 100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir, 40-31:
http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com/2011/01/100-greatest-posters-of-film-noir-40-31.html #
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I can see how the reviewer might have a problem with the Parker novels, but I don’t. I don’t particularly like Parker, but I respect his professionalism (even if it’s professionalism at an immoral career.) So I find him fascinating to read about, though I’m not sure I actually like to meet the guy.
A second comment on that guy’s outlook of The Hunter;
While it doesn’t show that much in the first book, for the rest of the series Westlake does set Parker up with some very loyal, although very cold and business only, work ethics where everyone he does work around gets their fair share. Not because they’re his friends, but that they’re his coworkers. And I think it was in that same review that he saw the character as cruel. Maybe in The Hunter he might seem a bit bonkers, but his description of how he kills his enemies in the rest of the books is always a one sentence “Parker put one bullet in him and left” kind of deal. I probably would’ve abandoned the series if Westlake had made this character become more unhinged and sadistic following the events in The Hunter, but instead he just sobered him up.