I've very much enjoyed your 2009 catch up posts. It's almost ludicrous that yet another year has passed by. At least this year I feel like I caught the train, rather than being stuck at the 2009 station, waiting for the next one.
I'm definitely going to do the 50 book challenge this year. I'm tempted to cheat a little and include a book I was reading last week, but I'm taking the high road.
Instead over the last 2 days I read Nelson DeMille's 'Nightfall'
It's not the sort of book I'd normally pick up, but I am slowly making my way through Beast Master's collection. He is the owner of a stunning array of war books, spy books and non fiction coffee table books that have nothing but things like 'Carriers of the Crimea' plastered all over the front.
It's sort of endearing - such a boy obsession. Suffice to say I've been avoiding 'Super Chargers: The True Story of Depth Mines' and the like. I'm more enjoying his spy and police collection, which is where DeMille's book comes in.
A short review... TW 800 was a flight that actually did explode about 12 minutes after take off from New York. 230 passengers died on their way to Paris. Horrible stuff. This book posits that it may have been a terrorist attack. At the end of the day, it's a great detective story and I sort of love then main character, troubled smart aleck cop with an axe to grind, John Corey. So much I have raided the Spare Oom to get the next book in the series. If anything, it'll give me awesome things to annoy Beast Master with - my favourite interchange was Corey simply beating on his nemesis and calling him an asshole. And then telling him he stepped on his, erm, member.
Pretty engrossing, and I even didn't get too bothered by this author having his work endorsed by Dan Brown. Demille is several orders of magnitude above Brown, in my humble opinion. At least I give a crap about his characters.
The only good thing I've got the say about the Da Vinci code was the interview with Paul Bettany about how he made Tom Hanks fart during filming of the movie.
Old Knobs and Groynes
1 week ago
I'm glad you're on the train, m'deary!
ReplyDeleteI wish SP had better books - All I've found so far are the Dan Brown books (yawn), Harry shitting Potter and one that I thought would be fantastic - Several alternate history stories - But wasn't. Bah!
I am having an OMG moment. My SP likes to read alternative history too! I think at the moment it's something about if General Custer won. Something like that... pretty frivolous if you ask me. Everyone knows messing with the STC ends up in tears and spikey heels.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I am all aboard 2010!
Yikes! Do we have doppleganger boyfriends?
ReplyDeleteP.S. Where's the rest of your finger?
Good luck with your 50 book challenge!
ReplyDeleteI read about a book a week...sometimes more but I haven't set myself to blog about it yet.
Frankly, I think people come to my blog to see nekkid old men rather than read my book reviews.
I'll look forward to your posts.
And somewhere on the internets, IDV's SP is hammering out a comment that reads something like:
ReplyDeleteI wish my SP had better books - all I've found so far are some young adult books and some shitting Star Trek novels!
I admit with much shame that I have 4 Dan Brown books. I've read them all and found that if you change the names and places a bit you'll have every other Dan Brown book. Makes it easy to churn out new tripe. I like the Davinci code though. Just a little.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to hear that you made it on the train. To me it's like those horror things at amusement parks and I'm still sad to have left 2009.
"I dislike Ayn Rand intensely"
ReplyDeleteOh Hai!
CP, I missed when you said "horror things" and just pictured one of those kiddie trains that just goes around and around on a little track. Which is kind of like my blogging, I guess.
ReplyDeleteBut! In February there will be Olympic hotness to look forward to on my blog.
And Dinah, in March (and maybe even Feb.) there will be Oscar goodness on my blog.
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