Finished "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett. Pretty good, was more like a series of episodes rather than an ordinary novel. Reminds me of "Sin City". Has several similarities with the movies "Yojimbo" and "A Fistful of Dollars", but the anti-hero is less cool and more human than the Ronin or the the Man With No Name.
Has started the short story anthology "Transfinite" with SF-stories by A.E. van Vogt and Isaac Asimov's SF-detective novel "The Robots of Dawn".
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
