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Horse Under Water
Len Deighton
One of the early Deighton books written in '63. This is part of the un-named "Harry Palmer" books. This one concerns diving for a sunken U-boat off the coast of Portugal. Per normal you don't know what is going on and the true purpose of everything is not evident until the end. Also deals heavily with everybodys involvement in the war.
Two interesting items for Deighton fans. One part of the book deals with people in Britian who were sympathic to the Germans, and who would hold high posistions in the puppet government after Germany defeated England. I wonder if these are the same people who appear in SS-GB Deighton dystopian book about the German occupation of England. Also toward the end of the book there is a 'new guy' in the office name Bernard that runs a few un-important errands... Is this Bernard Sampson??
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Shopgirl (22)
Shopgirl
By Steve Martin
read 9/4/08
This is written by actor Steve Martin and is the story of Mirabelle and her life and affair with an older rich man. The interesting thing about the book is there is almost no dialog. It is mostly what the characters are doing and the background... about how they visualize things, and how their experiences have impacted them.
It is a really interesting book in a very different way... It is engaging, not so much in what the characters are doing, as that is fairly predictable but more in the through process.
By Steve Martin
read 9/4/08
This is written by actor Steve Martin and is the story of Mirabelle and her life and affair with an older rich man. The interesting thing about the book is there is almost no dialog. It is mostly what the characters are doing and the background... about how they visualize things, and how their experiences have impacted them.
It is a really interesting book in a very different way... It is engaging, not so much in what the characters are doing, as that is fairly predictable but more in the through process.
My Life in High Heels (21)
My Life In High Heels
Loni Anderson
Read 8/30/08
This is an auto-biography, largely in response to her then divorce from Burt Renyolds. But it is not a tell-all type book. It starts with her life before she became famous and how family and friends were important to her.
There are a lot of names.. and at times it seems like she is name dropping the celebs she knows but she does it for the whole book, and I think it is more to share the spot light with others in her life. It is a lot of movies and shows she worked on, people she worked with. Blah, Blah, Blah... then toward the end a bit about Burt and his mood swings and handfuls of pills.
Seems like a nice enough person, and not a great book but mildly interesting.
Loni Anderson
Read 8/30/08
This is an auto-biography, largely in response to her then divorce from Burt Renyolds. But it is not a tell-all type book. It starts with her life before she became famous and how family and friends were important to her.
There are a lot of names.. and at times it seems like she is name dropping the celebs she knows but she does it for the whole book, and I think it is more to share the spot light with others in her life. It is a lot of movies and shows she worked on, people she worked with. Blah, Blah, Blah... then toward the end a bit about Burt and his mood swings and handfuls of pills.
Seems like a nice enough person, and not a great book but mildly interesting.
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