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About my previous book, Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash, there are two pieces of information that might seem important to us:
1. In Jamaica, he went in a crocodile hunter with someone familiar to us: Ross Kananga.
2. Also in Jamaica, in Cash's house in Cinnamon Hill, he says that not far from there was filmed a waterfall scene of James Bond in Live and Let Day. Now I don't remember any waterfall in that one, so I don't know if the story is confused with Dr No.
Perhaps when Bond and the soon-to-be-shot-by-a-parrot girl have a picnic? There might have been a waterfall in that scene.
Had good taste, that Cash feller.
Is it true to Conan Doyle? I have long had the intention of picking this up to give it a go, but have yet to spot it on my bookstore runs.
It's rather good myself, I'm not entirely fluent in Conan Doyle mannerisms as I've only read the The Hound of the Baskervilles but as far as I can tell, Horowitz has done a rather good job at recreating the style but keeping it very 'Horowitz like'. I've always wanted him to have a go at a Bond novel. He's quite similar to Fleming in his description to low key settings, and has an eye for a good plot too, as he showed in his Alex Rider novels.
- George R. R. Marting - A Game of Thrones - picked up a full box at a local book shop because at the moment: a) I had nothing to read, b) there were not many english books available, c) incredibly cheap. I'm reading it for way too long, I'm struggling at times with it but it's not bad. By the way, I never watched the TV series, are they any good?
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - similarly to the previous one, there isn't much of a choice in english books where I live but they do have a good selection of Penguin classics. I buy books on the internet but there are times when a person needs to go inside a book shop and leave with a book to read.
- Katherine Webb - The Legacy - random books I picked up in a supermarket back home because I didn't take any books with me. One of those cases of don't judge a book by it's cover, the only thing in common between the two is that there are two sisters in the book, it ends there. I'm near the end and loving it.
Next up I will likely be reading a wonderful biography I got for Christmas: Stefan Kanfer's Tough Without A Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart. I can't wait to learn even more about my favorite actor from old Hollywood. If it is anything like the Marilyn Monroe biography I read a few months back, I will be very pleased. :)
Yes, and I find them superior to the Young Bond novels. Alex Rider is a far more compelling character than young James Bond (the same is not true of the adult James Bond).
They seem to have modernised it a bit. The Doctor makes references to Harry Potter, Blakes 7, girls who use gallons of fake tan, etc.
They also seem to have changed the character a bit too. Now I could be wrong because I haven't seen any of the classic series but I'm not sure the first doctor would jump off a building or be able to defend himself in a fight.
The aliens are pretty good though and I did like the story so overall it was probably worth the couple of quid I paid for it.
Still dragging on The Great Gatsby and A Game of Thrones, reading other books in the middle. The Legacy, by the way, was great.
I ordered a few days ago The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith and The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming and downloaded a bunch of free ebooks to see if I can get used to the format or not.
So far, an excellent read, on par with any adventure book I've ever lay my eyes on.
A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin.
The cover reminded me of GoldenEye, specially the title sequence...
About to start a thriller, Beneath the Dark Ice by Greig Beck.
I'm also breezing through a bit of pseudo-history, The Sword and the Grail by Andrew Sinclair, in which the author claims that an ancestor of his discovered America a century before Columbus. For some strange reason, I get a kick out of reading pseudo-history, even though I know it's all nonsense. It's like a different form of science fiction.
And in non-fiction, I'm about halfway through Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward.
When you finish, I would like to know your appraisal on this book, if it's possible!
Now I'm reading last year's best-seller The signal and the noise by Nate Silver, the guy who predicted the outcome of US 2012 presidential election(s). It's a broad book that covers forecast on economics, politics, sports, ecc. As a statistician myself, it's a must read.
Try Scott Mariani - great fast-paced action thrillers. My favourite read at the moment.
Thought you'd like this one :D
Before that it was Michael Connolly's Black Ice and Tom Clancy's Locked On. Yes, both were airport purchases, how did you guess?! I like Connolly's Harry Bosch (who I imagine as James Garner for some reason). Just a down to earth police procedure novel, much like all the other ones but very readable. Clancy's Locked On? Bit shit really. In fact, more than just a bit. I'm not even convinced he has any input to these books bar his name nowadays.
Haha very funny @Sandy, but regretfully it is true many times...