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| 29.10.2001 Finished "The Cassandra Compact" by Robert Ludlum this morning. The plot twist with the space shuttle was just a bit over the top. But still, better than average thriller. It's a "Covert-One" novel, which seems to be the thing to do at the moment. Find someone to write it with and start a group of novels under the same heading. Reminded me so much of Tom Clancy, that I started to read another one of his novels today..... Anyway, back to Ludlum - yeah, good read, something for Clancy-fans, I am actually thinking of getting another one of those Covert-One things.... 25.10.2001 I finished Lindsey Davis' "Ode to a banker". Was better than I thought, when I started it. Marcus and Helena are still fiddling around with that new house, I wonder when they will ever move in. Although it looks as they will never bother. How many more books will it take, until Pretonius marries Maia? Let's say 2, you read it here first! Now I am reading something by Robert Ludlum. Haven't read anything of his stuff for years. So far, so good. Smallpox seems to figure large. Sounds pretty familiar, I just read Tom Clancy's "Executive Decisions" a little while ago. Similar take, different virus. That book has even more similarities to real life at the moment. Not only a virus spreading in the US, but the White House gets hit by a plane.... I wonder if Bin Laden reads Tom Clancy? 19.10.2001 After finishing Wilbur Smith, I continued reading "Flight Of The Stone Angel" ("Der steinerne Engel") by Carol O'Connell, but I think I might dump that book after all. The main character is just too irritating, I don't like the book. I just keep thinking 'yeah, right, that's what would happen' - I just don't buy it and I am constantly thinking how else it could have been written to make it work. I am just not able to get into the story that way. 18.10.2001 Wilbur Smith, "Warlock", the sequel to "River God" and "The Seventh Scroll". If you liked "River God", you will meet old aquaintances. And the usual treason, murder, conspiracies, sex and general mayhem. Again a good read from the master of adventure novels. I already have takers for this book, I even had someone on the flight back from London asking me how the book was, with a dangerous gleam in her eyes.... |
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| ...what do you mean, 3 links to the same provider aren't enough!!? :-) |
| My all-time favourites... Some dazzling scenery, adventure, heaving bossoms, surprising plot-twists, suspense, good-looking heroes, really mean bad guys, conspiracies and all that after 8 hours at work and low brainpower? Fear not, Wilbur Smith will keep you entertained for hours! Or perhaps some crime busting in ancient Rome? Try Lindsey Davis' hero Marcus Didius Falco, always good for a chuckle and you won't figure out who's dunnit until the very last page. More classic crime? Sorry, Agatha, but you are boring the pants off me! Try some Dorothy Sayers instead, "Gaudy Night" is one of my favourites..... A bit more up-tp-date version? Elizabeth George is American, but you would never guess, true British crime novels.... Stephen King - not only horror, but some genuinely good story telling, too! Not enough horror? Try Dean Koontz..... Oh, by the way, a neat mixture between Wilbur and the above two: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. With every single installment I was up all night, absolutely impossible to put down! Try "Riptide"! |
| My current Top Ten: |
| Wilbur Smith - Warlock Lindsey Davis - Ode to a banker Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer Lincol Child & Douglas Preston - The Ice Limit Robert Ludlum - The Cassandra Compact Frank McCourt - 'Tis Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars Matt Dickinson - High risk Stephen King - On Writing William Dalrymple - From the Holy Mountain |
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| What I want to read, but have not gotten round to yet...... Harper Lee - To kill a mockingbird John Steinbeck - Grapes of wrath Brett Lott - Jewel David Scott Milton - The fat lady sings Richard Yates - Anything I can find..... What I have been reading in..... September 2001 August 2001 July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April & March 2001 Back to the current bookpage... |
| And, like everybody else, I occasionaly come accross a book that I do not like. Have a look at the books that I gave up on...... |
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| .........in October 2001 |
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