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Category: book reviewBy Peter on Mar 4, 2010 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Kerstin Ekman, Swedish writer, book review | 0 Comments
Swedish Kerstin Ekman is a very talented writer and, along with fellow Scandinavians Karin Alvtegen and Karin Fossum, a master of psychological thrillers. In her first novel published in the United States, Ekman, creates an aura of fear and malaise as she depicts a suspicious, isolated community shocked by a crime but unwilling to [...]
By 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 7, 2010 in Stephen W. Frey, Thriller, book review | 0 Comments
Day trading is a new practice that emerged with the Internet. For a while it was extremely popular. A day trader is commonly thought of as a guy (or girl) that sits at his computer, hooked up to the net, and moves great amounts of money around electronically, usually buying and selling share of [...]
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 Feb 1, 2010 in Historical Fiction, book review | 0 Comments
The place of this novel in Northcote Parkinson’s series about Richard Delancey is a little strange. It fills in details of Delancey’s career during and immediately after the Peace of Amiens. It also explains his marriage to Fiona as well as his promotion to Captain.
In the book, France builds up her strength for an invasion [...]
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 Nov 26, 2009 in Classical novel, Excellent book, Fiction Books, Jonathan Swift, The World of Books, World literature, book review, fantasy | 1 Comment
The world literature is full of treasures. One of them is Gulliver’s Travels, a truly remarkable and excellent book. It is a book everybody has read. But most have read it as a children’s book, and many in an edited version where some of the social critique and some of the sexual content in [...]
By Peter on Nov 6, 2009 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Helene Tursten, Swedish writer, book review | 2 Comments
Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys’ network, with the first families of Sweden. Suicide seems obvious, but some [...]
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 [...]
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