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Category: bestsellerBy Peter on Feb 22, 2010 in Desmond Bagley, Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
The Vivero Letter is an extremely fast paced thriller by the British thriller master Desmond Bagley that was turned into a great movie with the same name. All of the characters are believable, and the descriptions of the locations are so vivid that they place you firmly into the middle of the action.
Jeremy Wheale’s very [...]
By Peter on Feb 2, 2010 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Herman Wouk, Historical Fiction, World literature, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
The Winds of War (1971) told the story of the extended family of Captain Victor “Pug” Henry up to and including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain Henry, is a military man, to some extent a scholar, a translator, and an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and other statesmen. War and Remembrance picks up the [...]
By Peter on Jan 4, 2010 in Classical novel, D.H. Lawrence, Excellent book, Fiction Books, The World of Books, World literature, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a delightful novel and surely one of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century. It is a book with a history – a previously banned book. It was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928 due to the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its [...]
By Peter on Dec 9, 2009 in Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 2 Comments
P.D. James has been extremely successful as a writer. Her series about the famed Adam Dalgliesh, who now along with his creator P.D. James is nearing retirement (P.D. James is 89 years old) has enjoyed millions of readers all over the world. If anything, the series have told us two things about P.D. James. [...]
By Peter on Oct 23, 2009 in Classical novel, Excellent book, George R. R. Martin, bestseller, book review, fantasy | 0 Comments
A Game of Thrones is one of those big, epic fantasy stories. And this is the first book in the series by George R. R. Martin that is called A Song of Ice and Fire. And indeed – the setting is fairly typical – it is a medieval or late medieval society where knights [...]
By Peter on Jul 15, 2009 in Patrick Robinson, bestseller, book review, spy thriller | 0 Comments
The plot in Hunter Killer focuses on Saudi Arabia, both its internal political and economic problems, and it’s role in the wider world economy as the prime provider of oil. In this book, Robinson has created a scenario where the Saudi royal family and the numerous princes and other family members spend so much money [...]
By Peter on Jul 11, 2009 in C. S. Forester, Classical novel, Excellent book, Historical Fiction, World literature, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
This was the first book C. S. Forester wrote about Horatio Hornblower. However, in terms of the internal chronology of the series, it is the fifth. In England its title was The Happy Return.
In Beat to Quarters (the US title) we find Hornblower, having been promoted to Captain, on a secret mission to the Pacific [...]
By Peter on Jun 24, 2009 in Andrew Klavan, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Edgar-winner Andrew Klavan’s Empire of Lies (see also his True Crime) is a strange but appealing book. It is a thriller, but it is also a pretty wicked satirical book. It tells the somewhat strange the story of the middle aged Jason Harrow, a man living a pretty boring and extremely conservative life, but [...]
By Peter on Jun 8, 2009 in Award winner, Danish writer, Fiction Books, Morten Ramsland, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Doghead (Danish title Hundehoved)is a somewhat quirky novel. It has received rave reviews in Europe – and has won the Danish Best Novel and Best Author awards, as well as Book of the Year, the Reader’s Prize and the 2005 Golden Laurel Prize. Not bad!
Strange, yet appealing, Doghead follows three generations of a dysfunctional, odd [...]
By Peter on Jun 6, 2009 in Crime Books, Henning Mankell, Swedish writer, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
Firewall was the sixth Kurt Wallander book to appear in English (the eight in Swedish). Again Mankell has written a crime novel that makes spending time with the glum police inspector from Ystad a thrilling experience.
Two seemingly random events start off the book: The first is the death of a computer expert in front [...]
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