Just wanted to let you know that I'm working on a project in a quite tight schedule, so I'll have to cut the blogging down a little. I'll let you know in due time when everything's finished.
Here are some starred reviews for some books I've read and am reading (out of five):
T. Jefferson Parker: California Girl **** (starts slowly, but builds into a very effective tale of hippie age syndromes)
Ken Bruen: Rilke On Black ***½ (my first; could've preferred tighter plotting and less cultural references - after all, it's a book with a moron in the lead!)
Alistair MacLean: The Guns of Navarone **** (as some of you may remember, I've been having my doubts of MacLean: I read him in my teen years and liked him, but then I got intellectual and declared being bored with this type of thing; now this is work-related [will post later on this] and I find myself enjoying the quite crisp, yet literal style)
Edgar Allan Poe: collected short stories *-***** (the best being, in my mind, "William Wilson" [will post about this later on])
Okay, now back to the project No. Uno.
I was a big MacLean fan forty or so years ago, and I cans till re-read his books with pleasure. I'm not sure they'd even find a publisher today, but for me, they're always fun. I've read a number of them two or three times.
ReplyDeleteMacLean had a skill to keep the excitement till the end. And all those technical details! Spooky!
ReplyDeleteThe world of spionage enchants forever.
(I bought a DVD-box with four MacLean-movies some weeks ago and...oh, I was disappointed. The 70's look is too much and got my whole attention...)
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The movie that turned me on to MacLean is The Secret Ways with Richard Widmark.
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