A James Bond Novel - Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks Writing As Ian Fleming
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Sunday, 18 October 09 - 07:13 PM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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M has summoned 007 to London. It's the swinging sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate.
The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia -- where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner's secret desert headquarters. Here, Bond uncovers Gorner's cold-blooded plans for world domination.
Only by playing Gorner's twisted game can Bond stop him...
I was riveted from start to finish. This vintage James Bond novel Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming (honestly I never thought you could do that), was first published in Great Britain by Penguin 007 in 2008. This is true retro, everything about it, and the introduction of the VC10 airliner into the mix brings vintage air travel in all it's 60s glory into a book you simply cannot put down.
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Read An Interesting Novel Lately? Tell Us About It!
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Monday, 05 October 09 - 11:22 AM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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I often review novels that I've read on my blog. What I'm inviting you to do today is to review the novels (and or books) that you've been reading lately just to share with the rest of us who love books. I think it's a great idea, don't you?
Okay, let's here your comments on the hot novel[s] you've just read. We'd all love to hear about it. 
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The Sins Of The Fathers by Lawrence Block
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Friday, 28 August 09 - 11:38 AM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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A pretty girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell and as far as the NYPD is concerned the case is closed.
Matt Scudder, an ex-cop who does 'favors for friends', is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parents' most unspeakable sins.
This is the second book by Lawrence Block that I'm reading. I'm getting kinda hooked. Unlike the previous one I read, this one is only 182 pages but it sure is a compelling read. It has made me realize you can write smaller books (with less complicated plots) and still make it work. I want to try his formula. I already have something I'm researching that will bring up all of the short yet compelling plots that I want. Read Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder mysteries, you'll like his work.
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 8
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Wednesday, 26 August 09 - 09:28 PM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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In this blog post I'm going to review two books in the Richard Laymon Collection Volume 8 - Alarums and Blood Games.
Alarums - Beautiful violinist Melanie Conway has visions of death. When she collapses during a concert her boyfriend, Bodie, is there to hear her premonition of disaster... Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister but her looks have attracted an obscene phone caller... All three are being drawn into a mystery that's fired by sex and haunted by blood.
When I picked this book I hadn't ever read a book by Richard Laymon... I think what drew me to the book was the cover, the size of the book (enormous 758 pages of it), and the fact that you got two books in one. But hey, was I in for a mega surprise, Laymon is an outstanding writer and I, as a writer, want to emulate his style. The way he is able to switch from first to third person narratives with ease defies the norm (that you can only do one or the other). It can work if you do it like Richard Laymon.
Blood Games - Old college friends Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene meet up every year. This time Helen - the girl with a horror fixation and fear of being attacked in the shower by a bloodthirsty assailant - has chosen the venue. The Totem Pole Lodge is a deserted hotel with a sinister past, and Helen can't wait to tell the others the gory details. But that's before they find the Lodge isn't entirely deserted. And before Helen get's in the shower.
A little long winded and drawn out this book, it's the style that keeps you going (for me), but towards the very end you just can't put the book down. It really gets interesting.
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Alek by Alek Wek
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Thursday, 14 May 09 - 07:19 PM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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I finished reading this book last night. Alek (The Extraordinary Life of a Sudanese Refugee), by Alek Wek. When I finished reading her book I cried. Uncontrollable tears. I have never been moved by a book in this way. Ever. She is the most amazing human being. People like her do not exist. Not in this world. This is a gripping story of how a Dinka girl from war torn Sudan rose from the ashes like a phoenix to the catwalk capitals of the world as a supermodel. What amazed me the most is how humble she is. She has nothing bad to say or holds no grudges or bitterness of any kind whatsoever about anybody despite what she's been through. Unbelievable. If you want to be inspired, if you want to be a better person, read Alek, by Alek Wek!
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Chances by Jackie Collins
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Saturday, 04 April 09 - 09:51 PM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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Chances by Jackie Collins is intensely sexually graphic. Almost nothing is left to the imagination. I got to a point I'd seen so much of it it wasn't doing anything for me anymore but I didn't lose interest in the book itself, on the contrary I was gagging for more. Although she (Jackie Collins) did hold back on the gay sex bits...which were in abundance, like a truck-load, but the way she wove that into her plot left a lot to YOUR imagination.
First published in hardback in 1981 by Pan Books Ltd, this novel captures the essence of the trials and tribulations of her characters between 1913 and 1977. It is a sort of rags-to-riches crime-pays saga involving the mob, prostitution, pimps, porn, homosexuality, murder and pretty much everything in-between...and even 'love'. It's a massive 600-page novel in small font, so you can imagine. I did enjoy this book tremendously. It does make you 'think' how taking chances (or not) in life could lead to your success or failure in life...like when Gino "The Ram" Santangelo, notorious for his insatiable appetite for sex and whose sexual conquests were so many I lost count, got his big break when he bed a sex-starved billionaire's wife whose husband was a closeted homosexual -- AND they did this by arrangement -- the man made him (Gino Santangelo) incredibly rich! That is just one of many chances that presented themselves to characters in this book. A riveting read.
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The Pelican Brief by John Gresham
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Saturday, 28 February 09 - 11:44 AM (GMT +03:00) By Anthony J Namata in Book Reviews |
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How uncanny, I woke up this morning thinking I MUST start a Book Reviews column on my blog today, and when I picked up the morning papers I see a half page spread on John Grisham's book The Pelican Brief with the headline A Relevant Book for Global Times.
Well, I haven't read the book, but I think I remember seeing the movie, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The relevance of the book to global times is the environmental issues aspect of it...so much for cliffhanger titles to introduce an article.
I just put down Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill yesterday. It was an excellent read. This book has been a bestseller for over 65 years (boy what a long shelf life), if you haven't read it, I suggest that you do.
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