Books read in November / December
Dec. 27th, 2011 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gervase_fen21) Savages by Don Winslow (Steel, Longlisted)
22) 11-22-63 by Stephen King
23) Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver
Savages was a complete delight, a hugely enjoyable thriller with a trio of engaging lead characters whose marijuana operation comes to the attention of the Baja cartel. Winslow's pared-down, in the moment prose and expertise with viewpoint characters made this utterly compelling.
If there's any author who is a natural fit for e-publication then it's Stephen King - 800+ pages feel a lot lighter and less daunting on the Sony Reader. Entertaining, sentimental, thought provoking, with half a chapter or so dedicated to a callback to IT which a) was completely self indulgent and b) was a pleasure to read for any long-term King aficionado.
Jeffery Deaver's contemporary Bond reboot works pretty well, and his trademark "it's-not-what-you-think-it-is" corkscrew narrative suits a spy thriller. The gadgets are fun, and surely this the first Bond novel to contain a reference to another British fictional icon:
In this era we’ve become inured to terrible images on television. Scenes appalling to an eyewitness are somehow tame when observed in two dimensions on the medium that brings us Dr Who and advertisements for Ford Mondeos and M&S fashions.
22) 11-22-63 by Stephen King
23) Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver
Savages was a complete delight, a hugely enjoyable thriller with a trio of engaging lead characters whose marijuana operation comes to the attention of the Baja cartel. Winslow's pared-down, in the moment prose and expertise with viewpoint characters made this utterly compelling.
If there's any author who is a natural fit for e-publication then it's Stephen King - 800+ pages feel a lot lighter and less daunting on the Sony Reader. Entertaining, sentimental, thought provoking, with half a chapter or so dedicated to a callback to IT which a) was completely self indulgent and b) was a pleasure to read for any long-term King aficionado.
Jeffery Deaver's contemporary Bond reboot works pretty well, and his trademark "it's-not-what-you-think-it-is" corkscrew narrative suits a spy thriller. The gadgets are fun, and surely this the first Bond novel to contain a reference to another British fictional icon:
In this era we’ve become inured to terrible images on television. Scenes appalling to an eyewitness are somehow tame when observed in two dimensions on the medium that brings us Dr Who and advertisements for Ford Mondeos and M&S fashions.
