Current Reading: Don't Call Me a Crook [TSS]

Current Reading: Don't Call Me a Crook
Originally uploaded by dhamel.

As I wrote two posts ago, I started Bob Moore's Don't Call Me a Crook last night. It's a new edition of a book that was originally published in 1935. In his introduction the publisher writes, "Don't Call Me never bores. Never." And I thought, uh oh, this is going to be boring. But it's not! Not at all.

Bob Moore--whose real name was Robert Macmillan Allison--was indeed a crook as well as a good many other things. He was an incorrigible rogue. But his memoir has a certain charm to it. The writing is not as polished as it might be, but that's part of the charm too. The style is conversational, and it pulls you in with its simplicity of expression. As well as with the stories that Moore has to tell. Very happy to be reading it today.