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Done with Bagley?
It’s a strange feeling, a mixture of contentment and disappointment, when you are done reading a book and realise there’s not another of the same author that you haven’t read. That was the case this May when I was through with Desmond Bagley’s ‘The Enemy’ – my sixteenth of Bagley’s sixteen. It started eight years […]
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A State of Contrived Fear?
I bought Michael Crichton’s ‘State of Fear’ about a year back, soon as I heard that another Crichton book was out. Such is my (and lots others’) faith in Crichton to produce books that are characterized by ingenious themes, solid plots and wildly-engrossing narration. ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘The Lost World’, ‘Disclosure’, ‘The Rising Sun’, ‘Timeline’ have […]
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Read my second Mario Puzo book recently – ‘The Last Don’. A decent enough plot and typically solid characterisation – a good read overall. There is this advice that Don Clericuzio gives to Cross de Lena, that’s still on my mind. “It is dangerous to be reasonable with stupid people.” Not a world shattering quote, […]
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The Straight Bat 