Archive for January, 2010

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.

No Survivors: A Novel (Accident Man Novels)

The Confidential Agent

Alright for an evening with nothing else to read.

The Confidential Agent

Watership Down

As good as it was when I first read it thirty five years ago. A book that made me love reading.

Watership Down: A Novel

The Arms Maker of Berlin

Ok, but really pushes the willful suspension of disbelief.

The Arms Maker of Berlin

No Quarter

Very detailed, but a bit drawn out.

No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864

Label not displaying ampersand

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.

Back Story (Spenser)

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