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|title=Borderline

|author=Lawrence Block

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=May 2014

|website=http://lawrenceblock.com/

|summary=The world of Lawrence Block's 'Borderline' is one of pleasure seekers and murderous intent. Dare you open to pages of a book that has more eye opening elements than a laser surgeon's workshop?

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I can imagine the scene back in 1950s America. The Hays Code was at full force meaning that movies where forced to dull their more exuberant edges. Comic books had been vilified as perverting the minds of the youth; horror had turned to All American Superheroes. That left the hidden Dime Novel, a book you could pick up for only 10 cents to revel in its vicarious pleasures. Anyone could don an old Macintosh coat and pick up something like Lawrence Block’s ‘Borderline’, a book that purports to be crime noir, but is something very different indeed.

At fewer than 200 pages, ‘Borderline’ is not only a pretty poor attempt at a story, but too short too. However, to combat this Titan books have also added 3 short stories by Block; two of which continue the slightly dubious tone of the main story, but one that shows why Block is so popular. This is an author who has produced the Bernie Rhodenbarr series, but also the Chip Harrison books. Bear in mind, that bodies will be bared if you dare to cross the ‘Borderline’. The main issue with the book is not the sex or the violence, but the complete disregard for any type of storyline that is worth reading; how could a book with so much going on; be so boring?

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