No Survivors
Seems to have been written more in the attempt to get a movie advance rather than prop up the tired super agent genre. Better than watching the Pro Bowl, but not by much.
Archive for January, 2010
The Confidential Agent
Alright for an evening with nothing else to read.
Watership Down
As good as it was when I first read it thirty five years ago. A book that made me love reading.
The Arms Maker of Berlin
Ok, but really pushes the willful suspension of disbelief.
No Quarter
Very detailed, but a bit drawn out.
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Kind of a weird one – Ampersands disappear in labels, unless you set the UseMnemonic property to false.
Gomorrah
A 200 page run on sentence. Quite an effort to make this topic dull.
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System
The Art of the Heist
Underwhelming and depressing. To paraphrase Lily Tomlin – No matter how cynical you are, you can never catch up.
The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-and-Roller, and Prodigal Son
Soldiers and Slaves
Nasty bit of forgotten history repeated countless times throughout the slave camps of Nazi Germany.
Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble
back Story
A bit of an alternate reality when characters from different series interact. Stone and Spenser make for quite a combination.
Night and Day
Jesse finally figures it out.
Hark!
Palindromes, anagrams and Deaf Man – oh, my.
Devil’s Garden
I rarely put a book down after 100+ pages, but this book broke me. Going nowhere fast.
Black Edelweiss
An unusual memoir written by a machine gunner for the Waffen-SS during his captivity in an American POW camp in 1946.
Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS
The Increment
CIA genre – starts out ok, but has too many characters, which seems to be what international intrigue demands.
