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Seriously, it's fairly short and easy to read. As dense as some of Forster's fiction can be, as easily accessible is he when he talks a about books and reading and writing. |
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The movie has one of the best early Donald Sutherland. Not as in Mash, nor in Klute, but quite sexy. Steel eyed HawkEye strikes again. The book has marked an epoch. I remember the emotions and thrills it gave me when I read it in its time. But, it is one of the few spy, action thrillers and alike that I have not reread. Last edited by beppe; 07-21-2010 at 04:26 PM. |
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07-21-2010, 04:28 PM | #63 |
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This months nominations have given me a great many book tips. My TBR list is once again increasing. Can't wait for the poll, not sure which one I'll end up voting for.
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07-21-2010, 04:29 PM | #64 | |
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07-21-2010, 04:33 PM | #65 |
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07-21-2010, 04:34 PM | #66 |
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Me neither... I'd love my own nomination to win, but then I've already read it. I still have one nomination to bestow though...
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07-21-2010, 04:35 PM | #67 |
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Modesty. Modesty Blaise! Ah who does remember the great heroine? Pardon me the great she hero? Now, let me see. I seconded that one. I proposed this one. I have one shot left should I use it now or not. Or go for a more tremendous one. Nah. I will think a little more. I am putting up the info, but I am not proposing it yet. Modesty Blaise is the title of an action-adventure/spy fiction novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1965, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip in 1963. This was the first novel to feature the character of Modesty Blaise and her right-hand-man, Willie Garvin, and the series of books (all written by O'Donnell) ran concurrently with the comic strip until 1996 (the comic strip ran until 2001). Technically, this is a novelisation of a screenplay O'Donnell wrote based upon the character, although it predated the film release by a year. The filmed version of the screenplay bore little resemblance to O'Donnell's original (the author was often quoted as saying only a single, inconsequential, line of dialogue remained from his original script). Although the 1966 film version of Modesty Blaise was not a critical success, the book proved popular with fans of both the comic strip and readers of spy fiction (Blaise was promoted on the cover of the first American edition by Doubleday as the feminine answer to James Bond), and O'Donnell followed up with 10 more novels and two short story collections over the next 30 years. Last edited by beppe; 07-21-2010 at 04:44 PM. |
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Heroins are not easy to find, except of course your not beloved Larson, the Swedish one. You could read a synopsis of the first two and go directly to third. For me the best of the 3. I reread it twice already. |
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For myself I very much enjoy the heroines of the novels of Judith Merkle Riley. An unusual and lovely combination of innocence and intelligence. And as you mention, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great ones, too. |
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I am sure that our pilot and chairman, may the powers above hold him always close to their heart for having given me this wonderful eating technology, would like it, after the pillars and before the eye of the needle. Not so hidden symbols. By the way, and staying in subject, you film lovers, in which not so recent, but nevertheless wonderful film, the gesture of passing a thread in the eye of a needle was done while speaking of Catherine Deneuve? Karma to go. Too much Dedalus today. |
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