tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post8042683379412987830..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Riders of the Night - Eugene CunninghamJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-50842280802992942832017-02-25T11:40:54.681-06:002017-02-25T11:40:54.681-06:00James, you keep on adding to my reading list. Have...James, you keep on adding to my reading list. Have seen Cunningham's name but would have never thought to pick him up absent this post. I ordered this and another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-62606191178401145062017-02-25T10:04:30.931-06:002017-02-25T10:04:30.931-06:00A pulp collecting friend of mine who I've now ...A pulp collecting friend of mine who I've now known for more than 40 years, hates westerns and won't read them except for three exceptions: Max Brand, J.E. Grinstead, and Eugene Cunningham. Many times I've told him that there are other writers of westerns just as good as Grinstead and Cunningham but he won't try anyone else.'<br /><br />It's comical to see him carefully hunting through the contents pages of hundreds of western pulps, only looking for these three authors and completely ignoring the excellent work by other authors.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-8835346865804569332017-02-25T08:58:02.023-06:002017-02-25T08:58:02.023-06:00Phillip,
I appreciate the kind words. I think I ha...Phillip,<br />I appreciate the kind words. I think I have all of Cunningham's novels except for a couple, and I plan to hunt them down, too. I won't ever have all his pulp work, but that's all right. There's plenty to read.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-79861994624810200432017-02-25T08:32:56.959-06:002017-02-25T08:32:56.959-06:00Thanks for the recommendation James. You have neve...Thanks for the recommendation James. You have never let me down yet. If anyone yes looking for this novel, I found it on Abebooks.com.Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490892041502069648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-46685623776708418402017-02-24T14:02:45.337-06:002017-02-24T14:02:45.337-06:00Paul,
There are Kindle editions of Cunningham'...Paul,<br />There are Kindle editions of Cunningham's two non-fiction books, GYPSYING THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA and TRIGGERNOMETRY (a great volume about gunfighters), plus a pulp story in one of Wildside Press's Megapack collections, but that seems to be it for e-books. Quite a few of his books were published in large print hardback editions in the past 15 or 20 years and used copies are pretty inexpensive on Amazon. Golden West Literary Agency, the late Jon Tuska's outfit, controls the rights to Cunningham's work, and they haven't been very good about getting e-book editions out there with the exception of the books that were sold to Leisure.<br /><br />Walker and George,<br />There's a lot of violence in Cunningham's work, to be sure, but it's not real graphic. If anything, his hardboiled style is kind of understated most of the time.<br /><br />Pete,<br />You'll like Chihuahua Joe.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-9855267897619941062017-02-24T12:12:17.778-06:002017-02-24T12:12:17.778-06:00Just checked Amazon to see if it was available for...Just checked Amazon to see if it was available for Kindle, but not listed there for print either. Did see some of his other books such as WHISTLING LEAD (I can see the body count already with that title) and QUICK TRIGGERS to name a couple, but none of them available for digital release. Do you know of any of these would be re-released in whatever format, James?Paul Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662958530888833244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-78882886577343038652017-02-24T11:12:18.726-06:002017-02-24T11:12:18.726-06:00I'm convinced that JOHN WICK is a descendant o...I'm convinced that JOHN WICK is a descendant of Eugene Cunningham. Both men deal in large body counts.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-10517388046697623872017-02-24T09:16:45.260-06:002017-02-24T09:16:45.260-06:00I've always had a problem with the excessive n...I've always had a problem with the excessive number of shootings in the stories of Eugene Cunningham, so I was interested in your comments about there being 75, etc. I looked up his entry in TWENTIETH CENTURY WESTERN WRITERS(1982-James Vinson editor), and I was amused to read the following:<br /><br />"Complaints have been voiced the the body counts in his fiction rival those allegedly scored against the North Vietnamese by the United States. Another complaint voiced by tenderhearted moderns is simply that his heroes and villains alike hold human life pretty cheap."<br /><br />Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-35440923654828845522017-02-24T06:39:47.767-06:002017-02-24T06:39:47.767-06:00Thanks for the review, James. You had me at Chihua...Thanks for the review, James. You had me at Chihuahua Joe. I've ordered a copy. Sounds like a classic.Peter Brandvoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12008419428583093754noreply@blogger.com