They know they're not good for one another, but can't stay apart. Of course no good can come of any of this. As they reveal to one another their capacity for evil, they discover they can't quite trust even each other. This was a short read. For some reason I expected more. A short, fast-paced novella about a drifter who has an affair with a married woman and resorts to drastic measures to stay with her. At times confusing, POV isn't always immediately clear and at times it feels like words or sentences are missing, it was an interesting read.
The ending though was clear from the moment the book started. I also think it was too dialogue heavy. For a noir it was rather undescriptive. I think the film would would better in this instance. Worth a quick read though. I don't know what the title has to do with anything, since, as far as I can tell, no postman every rings once, let alone twice.
What the book does have is a drifter who takes up a job at a roadside dinner and after about two minutes of meeting the proprietor's wife, launches into a tawdry affair. It thus follows, of course, that drifter and femme fatale, must now murder the husband to be free to have each other. While this was a quick and snappy read, there is virtually no characterization. The story consists of sex and bungling murder, which is fine and good, but I there wasn't much for me to care whether they succeeded or got caught or not.
I'm not even particularly thrown by the sexism and racism, given the time period and the fact that most of it came out the main character's mouths, both of whom were not very likeable anyway. Things did get more interesting as the story twisted this way and that way, not entirely unexpectedly. It was, I suppose, an entertaining enough story, however, I wasn't invested in it much one way or the other.
Review - This novel is one of those "hard boiled" crime fiction novels where everyone is evil and selfish and the world in general is a bad place. It's all about money and sex. A bum, Frank Chambers, is hired by a owner, The Greek, of highway side cafe and petrol pump, as a helping hand. He seduces his wife Cora. Later both plan to kill the Greek and succeed in their second attempt.
When they are brought in front of the courts they escape punishment by a mixup in the insurance company investigation but both betray each other by that time. What follows is a life of suspicion. It's a good book for the lovers of such genre of books. I for one don't like it so much. Or, more properly, slam bang thank you ma'am. Published in , the violence and sexuality of the book was enough to get it banned in Boston, and still carries a powerful punch.
The story-line won't let go -- you may not like the characters, but you have to find out what happens to them, and the plot twists keep you looking first one way and then the other. The style is pared down in the extreme -- mostly dialog -- but still strongly evokes a specific time and place, and specific characters.
I picked "Postman" because it was an award winning movie. I actually enjoyed this story more than Mildred Pierce. Even though it takes place over 50 years ago, it is a timeless story of love, murder, and scandal. It is a short novel a little over pages and well worth your time. A short, fast-paced read which I have been enjoying.
Nowhere near as good as Double Indemnity, and where Mildred Pierce has too much physical description, Postman has too little - except in the final crash scene, where the physical description is so disgusting that it takes away from the emotional impact. I am now recovering by reading a Laura Ingalls Wilder book although that's gonna backfire on me once the grasshoppers show up. Postman gets three stars because I admire Cain's sheer balls-out approach, and I enjoyed browsing the various covers on LibraryThing.
It's hard, and fast, like a punch in the gut, and it definitely knocked the wind out of me. I love how in the moment it is - there's no motive, no explanation, just actions and consequences.
And it's an absolute rush, especially since its short length means you can fly right through it and tumble out headfirst within an hour. Just a brilliant little piece of writing, I think.
I tried. I really tried to see the merit in this. I couldn't. I've read noir and liked it. But not this one. The writing, the characters just wouldn't connect in any way. So much evil- doing packed into a slender novel. A kind of classic fiction work - a novel made into a film.
I'd wanted to read this for a while. I could see why it would make a good film - there were a lot of moments that were quite visual in it. There were also some pretty decent plot twists but overall it wasn't as dense in character as I'd thought it might be. Written in it tells the sexy, gritty tale of Frank Chambers, a drifter who finds himself grounded by Cora Papadakis, a married woman.
Cora's beauty and instant mutual attraction leads to Frank's uncharacteristic staying put. Soon the adulterous couple is contemplating murder. The plot is timeless. Desire has led them to the devil's doorstep. A drifter named Frank happens upon a diner run by "The Greek". When offered a job he is reluctant at first but then spies the Greeks wife.
He stays, begins an affair with the wife, and they eventually turn to murder and crime. This is in the style of a hard boiled detective novel--except there is no mystery, just two people hardened to life who don't seem to care what they have to do to get what they want. It's all described in a matter of fact way with lots of cynicism. This is an absolute masterpiece of noir fiction. The narrative voice is morally revolting, yet so compelling that you simply cannot put it down.
The plot unfolds in a way that seems to reflect the chaos that comes as lust and greed are mixed up with love and compassion, yet even as you read it you get a feeling of inevitability and moral logic. The book snaps to a conclusion with the abrupt and shocking finality of a hangman's noose. In the end you are left with a deeper feeling for the dark tragedy of the human heart.
Hey hey, one of my favorite books ever. Got me started on noir and was a good clean punch to the head aestheticallywise. Swift and violent, I think Dashiell Hammett called it. He was right. Mass industry paperback, fundamental cheap handbook Audiobook value prices, adobe converter, app, contemporary facts series, world data source, open public investigation and data file services. Cain issues short training total individuals tale with research instruction dummies integrating all chapters gratis, sparknotes author, component introduction.
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