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Currently, I am re-reading The Sign of Four (or The Sign of The Four) by A. Conan Doyle. It is one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories. Compelling, full of weird mystery and eerie atmosphere, finishing with a race on the Thames. A great read!
My favourite Mcnab book though is non fiction, Bravo Two Zero, which is a true story about an SAS patrol during the Gulf War which Mcnab led. They were behind enemy lines and tried to escape to Syria (only one did, Chris Ryan, who's also become a successful fiction writer and who wrote his own account of what happened).
There's a lot of controversy about how much of it is actually true with a couple of other soldiers involved slagging Mcnab off for it but it's a very good book. Really grips you.
After reading Cash's autobiography, I needed to cover a more objective account and it seems to me this would be the definitive biography. It studies not only the personal life but it's pretty detail on the musical aspects (more than the autobiography.) It's a most for every Cash fan.
260 pages in. It's good but not Fleming Great. Bourne is a little dull compared to Bond but it makes sense as he is trying to recover his past.
Later in the Future
The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum (Don't have Supremacy yet)
The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader
finish the Ludlum books first before you start the Lustbader series, as it is essentially a complete reboot of the Ludlum series.
This time revisiting the series of books not in my native language, which obviously isn't english :p But I'm trying my best here!
A great read especially if you love dr no,which is my favorite.
Terence young quote on fleming.
"I knew ian,funnily enough,but i never particularly liked him.
We became,eventually,enormously good friends,but i thought he was a pompous son of a bitch,immensly arrogant,and when we met just after i'd been signed to do the picture at some big press show put on by united artists,he said 'So they've decided on you to fuck up my work' "
I enjoyed his autobiography very much. Have not seen this before. Thanks for the tip.
But of course! I'm still tracking Supremacy down but in the meantime collecting Lustbader's 7 latest Bourne novels as The Bourne Ascendancy is releasing June 3, 2014.
Its a great read! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I second that. Roger really is a gentleman. He's polite and complimentary about almost everyone he's been friends with or worked with. Even the two or three people he didn't like, he refuses to bitch about.
Without ruining it for anyone who has not read yet WillyGalore? The story about Richard Burton made me laugh the most. :))
Yep, but I could have said that...........?!!!!!
;)
What gives it extra heft is that it's written by Stoker's grand-nephew Dacre Stoker. He picks up the lives of primarily Mina Harker and her son, as well as Van Helsing and the other vampire slayers, 25 years later, as they face a new vampire threat. And what became of the original vampire? hmmm.
Great read. I can hardly put it down.
And yes Rog's My Word is My Bond is a great read!
I read this a couple of years ago I think, and if I remember correctly he wasn't very complementary about David Niven's wife! And rightly so.
The book is filled with many exclusive pictures, with tons of anectodes related with the story behind the camera. Reading the book confirmed for me the idea that Bond fans lost an extraordinary possibility to built something special on the long term with George Lazenby, a quick learner, athletic, smooth and good looking Bond.
I'm grateful we had such a fine actor as Sir Roger Moore in the role, but George Lazenby would have made a GREAT Bond over a period of 3 or 4 movies.
I've so enjoyed to book that I bought "The making of The Living Daylights" and can't wait to read it.
:)) Just saw that post as I was reading that part. Anyway...I am also reading Eragon which is a pretty fun novel, even if it seems a tad like Lord Of The Rings with dragons
Finally, the parallelism with The Dark Knight Rises is notable, not only on for
That's another classic I will probably read some time in the future. It got spoiled for me years ago, which is a shame, but that's expected as it's one of the world's most revered texts.
That's a shame but even if you know how it ends, it's nevertheless enjoyable because it is more than just a plot, it's a wonderfully written story. In my opinion, the language,how it is said, it's more important than the story, what it is said. Or in classic terms, elocutio over inventio. That is what contemporary literature lacks.