Last book bought

Stephen King - 11/22/63

I have always liked mr. Kings writings and most of the time buy his new books blind, With the exception of the Gunslinger series, which have failed to woo me.

Anthony Horowitz - House of Silk (new Holmes novel)

I simply like Sherlock Holmes, any new adventure is welcome.

Havank Ross - Schaduw contra de Schorpioen (the Shadow vs The Scorpion), not the Us Shadow but the detective as written by a Dutch Writer Havank, this is the 3rd continuation novel by the 2nd author to continue the works of........

I have most of the Dutch crimenovels by Havank. The writer Tomas Ross is one of the better Dutch crime writers and he has taken up the pen of the once often brilliant writer Havank. Havank did translate quite a few Saintnovels as written by the immoratl Leslie Charteris. This is one of those must buys. Ross does write a better thriller than Havank perhaps ever did but the virtuosity in dialogue is perhaps best discribed as the silly bantering in films of the thirties and forties. Perhaps not everybody's cup of tea. But I can quite enjoy six pages of silly observations on the subject of a large nose.

THE ALIENIST by Caleb Carr
AMERIKA by Franz Kafka
BAUDELINO by Umberto Eco
CARTE BLANCHE by Jeffrey Deaver
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson
THE DISPOSSESSED by Ursula K. Le Guin
THE LEOPARD by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
THE MACHINERIES OF JOY by Ray Bradbury
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE by Graham Greene
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E. M. Forster
THE ROCK GARDEN by Nikos Kazantzakis
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES by Isak Dinesen
SKELETON CREW by Stephen King
THE STAND by Steven King (original 1978 version)
ZORBA THE GREEK by Nikos Kazantzakis

Just ordered:

Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton
Memoirs of a Mangy Lover - Groucho Marx

My last books i buy be:

9 October:


De Voorspeller (Roman)- 2008 (Original title: Anthem of a reluctant prophet - 2007 ) from Joanne Proulx (Canada). I try to reading it but later i give it another try.


Gevoel van veiligheid (Literaire Thriller) - 2007 (Original title: Innere Sicherheit - 2006) from Christa von Bernuth (Germany)


Olievlek (Thriller) - 2008 (Original title: Darkness Falls - 2007) from Kyle Mills (America). Workd 2 times with Robert Ludlum (Jason Bourne). I discover it be a fift book of a franchise (if i believe the back cover this not realy be a big problem with this chacter.) where in earlier books there yusing a chacter who also be in this book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Mills_%28author%29
This novel iam reading at the moment.

All three books for € 2,99 each. Books are not cheap, so sometimes i buying some books at a supermarket for 2,99 or 3,99. Always be riks because i haven't created a gerne yet.

Last year i buy a book Roemloos ten onder (Original title ''Name to a Face'' 2007) from Robert Goddard (English). This book i finished in 2 months after the buying whyle ''Een doodgewone Misdaad'' (Original title ''The Crime Trade'' 2004) from Simon Kernick (Engelisch) about a Police undercover operation be to dificult and i give later a re-start.

Before i buying some books in 2010 i won in 2009 a re-release of book callt Het Experiment (The Experiment) from Dutch writer Joost Heyink, a bit to short.

My first book of 2011 and i already finish be the roman Ignacio Martinez de Pison - De tijd van de vrouwen - 2006 (El tiempo de las mujeres -2003). I start reading this book almoost a month before the happening in Egypt. this having some simalar situtation in spain. From the same translater of ''Los amigos del crimen perfecto'' a book in buy in August 2010 see later in the post.

Earlier this year:


[Eng] 007 For Your Eyes Only Ian Fleming + James Bond. € 12,00 Include Casino Royale 2006.


[Eng] Kiss Kiss Bang ! Bang ! The Unoffical James Bond Film Companon € 5,00

Not brought but won:

http://cdn2.boeken-plus.nl/images/boeken/9789047517160-j-deaver-carte-blanche-178.jpg
Dutch translation of Jeffery Deaver boek - Carte blanche.

Other books i buy in 2010

De vrienden van de perfecte misdaad (Dutch translation 2005 from ''Los amigos del crimen perfecto'' 2003) from Andrés Trapiello (Spain)
YQUEM. A Dutch novel about Wynefrom 2006 from Addy Kaiser.

Het nest van de nachtegaal (Dutch translation of 2007 van "The nightingale's nest" 2006) from Sarah Harrison (Englisch). Playing in the 20th (1920) of London. Can't start reading because it be the second novel in the Swann Music trilogy. Books be difrent things then movies and because iam trying to discover my gerne, i give this ww1 novel a change. I liked the fift Harry Potter novel too, so i hope this one too. Dutch speaking people can found more information about this trilogy http://www.boekbeschrijvingen.nl/harrison-sarah/harrison2.html#harrison2

Other books i buy in 2011

[Fantasy]. De Godeloze Wereld - Eerste Boek: Zwaarden van Eer 2007 (Dutch translation of: The Godless World 1: Winterbirth, 2006.) from Brian Ruckley (Schotland). If i like it going to be a very expensive buy to buy the 2 other books, the 2007 price of this first part be € 19,99 (Simalar price as the 6th and 7th Harry Potter.) and the sequels are € 24,99 each (Harry Potter 5 cost me € 21,99.) More information http://www.rocketsanddragons.nl/?s=De+Godeloze+Wereld

Project Sakkara 2008 (Original title: Sakkara Project - 2007.) from Andreas Wilhelm (Germany).
Meesters van Shaduw 2008 (A Shadow in Summer - 2006 ) from Daniel Abraham & George r.r. Martin (American). This time it be a first part.

De Kinderen van Húrin (Fantasy) - 2007 (Original title: The Tale of the children from Húrin - 2007) from J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord Of The Rings) & his son Christopher Tolkien (England). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin Dutch: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Kinderen_van_H%C3%BArin



For cover there yusing the same front as the English original, there only changed the title.

Last things I've ordered, which haven't yet arrived, were Harold Wilson's Labour Government, 1964-70: A Personal Record and Final Term: The Labour Government, 1974-1976, both ordered this morning, and a copy of Tony Wrigley's Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England which should be with me shortly.

Harmsway wrote:

THE ALIENIST by Caleb Carr

Great novel. Have read it twice. One day I hope the movie eventually gets made (somebody needs to pass this book on to David Fincher). I think a few years ago Johnny Depp probably would have been the only choice to play Dr. Kreizler, but I think he's probably a bit overexposed on those sorts of roles now.

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CARTE BLANCHE by Jeffrey Deaver

An enjoyable book; as a "reboot" I thought it worked well.

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THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson

An excellent book, but what will the movie concentrate upon? You could almost make two entirely different movies from this book: the first film would be about the cereal killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and the second film about the struggles and accomplishments to get the Chicago World's Fair up and running in 1893.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

An enjoyable book; as a "reboot" I thought it worked well.

I'm okay with owning it as a Bond fan, but I really kinda hate it. It's terribly dull.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

An excellent book, but what will the movie concentrate upon? You could almost make two entirely different movies from this book: the first film would be about the cereal killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and the second film about the struggles and accomplishments to get the Chicago World's Fair up and running in 1893.

I think the film, like the book, means to juxtapose both of them.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

the cereal killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes

Did he force feed his victims with Special K?

We should have a thread on this. Rave prefers Honey Smacks. Kennon liked Cinnamon Mini-Buns.

Harmsway wrote:

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

An enjoyable book; as a "reboot" I thought it worked well.

I'm okay with owning it as a Bond fan, but I really kinda hate it. It's terribly dull.

I gave away my copy of CARTE BLANCHE a long time ago. It adds nothing whatsoever to the world of Bond - nothing worthwhile, anyway, and all those odd, redundant references to everything from Harry Potter to Depeche Mode are just naff and embarrassing.

The book does, however, achieve the remarkable feat of making DEVIL MAY CARE seem pretty decent after all.

For now:

Films of The Thirties - Jerry Vermilye
Films of The Forties - Tony Thomas
America Worked: The 1950s Photographs of Dan Weiner - William Ewing & Dan Weiner

and for the Christmas stocking:

Profiles of Courage - John F. Kennedy
Thirteen Days - Robert F. Kennedy
Eisenhower: The White House Years - Jim Newton
A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s - James B. Gilbert

And yes, you dont need to inform me on the authorship of Profiles of Courage. ;)

Loomis wrote:

The book does, however, achieve the remarkable feat of making DEVIL MAY CARE seem pretty decent after all.

An astonishing feat, really.

Desperate Romantics

I'm such a sucker for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

A Practical Guide To The Runes

Yeah, I cast runes. And read Tarot cards. You're going to think there's no end to my talents, aren't you?

The Cruel Sea -Nicholas Monsarrat

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy- LeCarre

Harmsway wrote:

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

An enjoyable book; as a "reboot" I thought it worked well.

I'm okay with owning it as a Bond fan, but I really kinda hate it. It's terribly dull.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

An excellent book, but what will the movie concentrate upon? You could almost make two entirely different movies from this book: the first film would be about the cereal killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and the second film about the struggles and accomplishments to get the Chicago World's Fair up and running in 1893.

I think the film, like the book, means to juxtapose both of them.

Maybe it was just me, but the problem I had with the book, and it was the only problem, was that HH Holmes' cereal killing was only tangentially related to the Chicago World's Fair. It seemed like the only link between the two was that Holmes was advertising rooms to rent in connection with the staging of the World's Fair. I actually found the story about the World's Fair, and all the problems with creating it, a bit more interesting than the story of Holmes himself, as there was more known about the Fair than about Holmes.

Currently I'm reading POMPEII by Robert Harris:

Funeral in Berlin -Len Deighton.

Just ordered:

With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia- Asne Seierstad, Sindre Kartvedt
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda -Philip Gourevitch
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge- Chanrithy Him

What's Christmas without a bit of genocide?

Sharky wrote:

What's Christmas without a bit of genocide?

What's slaughter without a bit of laughter?

Fae wrote:

What's slaughter without a bit of laughter?

S

Oh very good. I'm feeling obsolete now.

who's that?

Spike & Co- Graham McCann

the brains behind Steptoe, the Goons, Sykes etc

Colditz The Full Story- PR Reid

The Commodore- Patrick O'Brian

My last Amazon order:

Alexander The Great - Robin Lane Fox
The Classical World: An Epic History From Homer To Hadrian - Robin Lane Fox
How Rome Fell - Adrian Goldsworthy
Caesar: Life of A Colossus - Adrian Goldsworthy
The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market - Simon Constable; Robert E. Wright
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing [Revised Edition] - Benjamin Graham; Jason Zweig; Preface by Warren E. Buffet
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World - Michael Lewis
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves - Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump
Laws of Attraction: A Novel - Allison Leotta
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way - Richard Branson (bought mainly to compare to:)
Branson - Tom Bower
Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life - Emanuel Derman
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer - Paul Barry

I have too much money.