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1963
They are well written and entertaining.
I see you're starting at the beginning, @Thunderfinger.
It is a book about cataclysms. And those are always beginnings, so yes.
Nesbit also wrote a few horror stories that still hold well to this day. I read them around Halloween.
Yes, I was reading up on it there and the text seems to have been partially banned by the CIA. Interesting. Is it known why?
It was recently declassified and I am trying to find out.
Deaver was more the master of the plot twist and while he can write a thriller I was never too sure about his James Bond effort, he remains an interesting and good writer.
He seems (so far) to be a good writer and he's got some credentials. It's just that Fleming was not famous for his plot twists. And on a side note it sort of irks me that the chapters don't have titles.
The Gardner books are -- generally speaking -- not very good.
Utterly despised Devil May Care.
Didn't care for Carte Blanche.
Didn't read Solo.
Really enjoyed Horowitz's two Bond novels... A third would be nice!
"He was a cat. He was an iron bar fistload in a hard right hand. He was rough like a chisel and relentless as a iackhammer. He was Snake Plissken and he was running for all he was worth. The hallway stretched out long and dark before him; neon script crawled the walls in patterns as complex as spider webs. Dizzying patterns. Insane patterns. Symptoms of the nerve gas madness that dipped out of the sky to touch everyone's Iife from time to time. Plissken wasn't crazy, though. He was motivated."
Finished The Gunslinger, on to The Drawing of Three.
Some people I've known to have read Gunslinger didn't like it very much because there isn't a ton of character development, but for me, it's a great gateway into the rest of the series, because it's shorter than all the other entries, and it spends a lot of time developing nuances about the world, and the protagonist, Roland. There's good story structure I think, and I kind of like how the narration goes backwards in time, in a kind of Inception-y way: Roland tells a story about something that happened to him, and in that story, tells another story about something even further in the past. It's an interesting way to make the world and the character richer, but it isn't done in a way that's confusing/requires you to keep track of where you are in the narrative. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." is such a brilliant first line, IMO.
I should really search that out and try it. Plus what the heck are these by Christopher Sebela, 2015-2016.
My first copy of this vanished many years ago, so it was great finally finding it at a second hand shop in Oslo this summer.
I'd love to read Dune at some point. Maybe after my current read through of The Dark Tower.
I might have to look that up. Thanks @Birdleson :-bd
1964 (but taking place in 1994)