jlhoots Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 Cristina Garcia: The Lady Matador's Hotel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 (edited) Just finished this. Le Carré has here moved from British spies to the world of Israeli/Arab espionage and, while gripping, it doesn't come up to the perfection of the George Smiley novels IMHO. Perhaps it's the English class system that Le Carré did so well! IIRC, this is one of his oldies, from the early 80's and I agree with you that it can't be compared with the Smiley trilogy. Edited September 19, 2010 by B. Goren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jostber Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 Paul Theroux - The Pillars Of Hercules The writer is traveling all the way around the Mediterranean cost from Gibraltar to Morocco. Going to Sicilia myself in three weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 Lightening up a bit: Reginald Hill's Midnight Fugue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Spent a couple of hours this afternoon looking at the photographs and reading the documents in Chan Parker's and Francis Paudras' To Bird with Love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 Nic Pizzolatto: Galveston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 Re-reading "Gateway" by Fredrick Pohl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 Re-reading "Gateway" by Fredrick Pohl A favorite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 I started rereading The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth. Every time I read this one it seems less like SF and more like a documentary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 I started rereading The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth. Every time I read this one it seems less like SF and more like a documentary... Yet another favorite! (Reminds me in some ways of PKD's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 I started rereading The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth. Every time I read this one it seems less like SF and more like a documentary... I know what you mean. Depressing, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 Read about 100 pages so far. Not sure if we are supposed to take the main character at face value but griping and fascinating story nonetheless. My last comment about this series if the story is griping, can't say the writing by itself distinguishes itself positively from other polars, either the way it is written is a at times clumsy because the writer is not great or because the main character/narrator thinks he is smarter than he really is and that's a way of showing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 Colin Dexter's The Secret of Annexe 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Nice one. One of the last things I read prior to leaving the UK. It's a nice photo, though it is a bit odd to use one of London when probably 3/4 of the book takes place in Paris. Must be a couple of photos floating about of people sleeping rough near the banks of the Seine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 THE KILLER INSIDE ME - Thompson Watched the movie, now digging into the novel. I noticed that in the introductory scenes of the book, the dialogue was copied almost word for word in the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 (edited) That is pretty much how it is throughout the (remade) movie. The director DID decide not to film some scenes, and much of Lou Ford's interna "dialog" is not "narrated" either, which adds surprise to some scenes. . . in the book Ford talks to himself about "the sickness" returning, etc. and that gives a bit of warning and explanation for the violence that so abruptly erupts in the film. . There was a time in the 'eighties when reading Orwell seemed to be eerie. . . it's as if I could easily bond and share his viewpoint and ideas. Only two other authors have ever really reached me in the same way: Dick and Miller. Edited September 24, 2010 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Only two other authors have ever really reached me in the same way: [Dick and] Miller. Is that Arthur or Henry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 Jill McCorkle: Going Away Shoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 It's not Arthur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 Still with those English "kitchen sink" novels c.1960 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 It's not Arthur. I was thinking Frank... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 I admire a lot of Frank's work, but. . .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Fredrick Pohl, "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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