by David Grossman
This book has a number of very amusing jokes in it but it s far from a comedy.
It is the story, set in a stand up club, where a man's life unfolds during his act, to which he has invited a childhood acquaintance. As a side story we also get a bit of his life too.
It is a short, gripping piece of writing that kept me enthralled from beginning to end. 8/10
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Officers and Gentlemen
by Evelyn Waugh
The second part of the Sword of Honour trilogy.
Continuing the story of Guy Crouchback, an outsider in many ways but part of the English elite. In this volume we have the story of preparations for war on the isle of Mugg, which is very amusing and the comedy of errors that leads to the elevation of trimmer.
The second part is based around Crete and is much more sombre and sobering but continues to show up the senselessness of war. 7/10
The second part of the Sword of Honour trilogy.
Continuing the story of Guy Crouchback, an outsider in many ways but part of the English elite. In this volume we have the story of preparations for war on the isle of Mugg, which is very amusing and the comedy of errors that leads to the elevation of trimmer.
The second part is based around Crete and is much more sombre and sobering but continues to show up the senselessness of war. 7/10
Monday, July 03, 2017
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
The imagination of Rushdie is astounding. 30 years nearly after first published, it still bowled me over with its bizarre happenings from the very start to its tragic-tinged with a glimmer of hope-ending. The best book I have read this year and I will be lucky if I read one to equal it 9/10
The imagination of Rushdie is astounding. 30 years nearly after first published, it still bowled me over with its bizarre happenings from the very start to its tragic-tinged with a glimmer of hope-ending. The best book I have read this year and I will be lucky if I read one to equal it 9/10
Men at Arms
by Evelyn Waugh
The first part of the Sword of Honour trilogy finds Guy Crouchback joining the army 8 years after a failed marriage. He stands melancholy and aloof from the host of comic characters he meets en route as he grapples with his Catholicism and the boredom of army life at the start of WW2. It is laugh out loud funny in places but equally sad in others as the loneliness of human existence is laid out. His fellow officers struggles with his thunderbox are a great piece of theatre. 9/10
The first part of the Sword of Honour trilogy finds Guy Crouchback joining the army 8 years after a failed marriage. He stands melancholy and aloof from the host of comic characters he meets en route as he grapples with his Catholicism and the boredom of army life at the start of WW2. It is laugh out loud funny in places but equally sad in others as the loneliness of human existence is laid out. His fellow officers struggles with his thunderbox are a great piece of theatre. 9/10
The Closers
by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch is back in the LAPD after a 3 year "retirement" and working cold cases, or as they like to refer to them open unsolved. This first case brings him into conflict with Irving Irvine who himself has been moved out of Parker Centre. The case centres around a murdered teenager and the trauma left in the wake of her killing. A good return for Harry 8/10
Harry Bosch is back in the LAPD after a 3 year "retirement" and working cold cases, or as they like to refer to them open unsolved. This first case brings him into conflict with Irving Irvine who himself has been moved out of Parker Centre. The case centres around a murdered teenager and the trauma left in the wake of her killing. A good return for Harry 8/10
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