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Chasing the Bangkok Dragon: A Thomas Sebastian Thriller
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Our Man in Mbabane: A Novel Based on a True Story
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The Red Door and Other Stories
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My Reviews of Classic Thrillers
I'm currently writing a espionage thriller and I decided to read or reread the classics in this specific genre. In doing so, I've been seeking to answer the question: What makes this a classic espionage thriller? So, my reviews of classic thrillers, like 39 Steps, are not typical formal reviews but rather an assessment from an author's point of view of what works and what doesn't in these great no
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| Rademeyer exposes the ugly underbelly of poaching and trafficking of rhino horn. The book is written as a series of interconnected narrative journalism stories about this tragic trade in contraband goods. Each chapter usually focuses on one individua ...more | |
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| Gordimer's The Conservationist is a difficult read in a couple of ways, which probably explains the 3.0 rating on Goodreads. First, the descriptive text and literary weaving of Mehring's thoughts are challenging to follow. His mind, like most minds, ...more | |
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| Wood's book on Fiction writing is one person's view of how writing works. It's a bit eccentric getting into somewhat (for me) obscure writing trends in modern literary fiction. He's particularly fascinated by novelists stepping outside the fourth wal ...more | |
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| Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle is well-written and the descriptions of Harlem are engaging. I assume the author thoroughly researched the era -- late 1950s, early 1960s -- of Harlem he depicts in this novel. It was interesting to read about the types of ...more | |
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| McCracken's stories are unusual, varied and unique in the short story genre. They are populated with people who have strange, unusual, unsolvable problems. And the problems rarely get resolved, they usually just drift into a state of ambiguity. One s ...more | |
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| Connell tells the same tale as in Mrs. Bridge but predominantly from Mr. Bridge's viewpoint. In the first half of the book, the satire on family living in the 1930s is very biting and amusing. Both mother and father are clueless about their kids. In ...more | |
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| As with all le Carre books, a complicated plot involving many characters. The plot involves Stewart Proctor, a mole-hunting specialist, seeking to find the source of a leak of data from the UK Secret Service (UKSS). A bookseller in a small town in Ea ...more | |
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| Leonard's The Switch starts out like a classic literary novel. A bored housewife, Mickey, married to wealthy businessman Frank, struggles to find meaning her life. The writing is exceptional and her inner story captured with sympathy and verisimilitu ...more | |
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| I was surprised to find this in the Elmore Leonard anthology, Four Novels from the 1970s. It is not nearly as good as most books by Leonard. I read the beginning five or six chapters, then skipped to the end to see how it concluded. Two grifters join ...more | |
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| Though sometimes gruesome, this is often a very funny tale of misadventure. The wealthy protagonist, Harry Mitchell, is being blackmailed about an affair that he is having with his girlfriend, Cini. The blackmailers threaten to expose him with a film ...more | |
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