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Great when you get an actors voice in your head as a character, they really come alive. I love the Sharpe series and even the author says he hears Sean Bean’s voice when he writes the dialogue!
Hi AbitofMary what did you think of the film where Denzel Washington played Rhymes? I read one of the Rhymes books long ago but I thought the film was a bit weak.
thanks toybulldog, love the intensity of Moby Di/ck
Was that Cassie Black? Harry’s ex?
I would have said Blood Work, great book, lousy film ( even with the benefit of Clint Eastwood) but the Lincoln Lawyer saw a great return to form after the lows of The Narrows when he went a bit of track.
Have you every tried any of Janet Evanovich? Stephanie Plum novels are a joy on the beach, with plenty of laugh out loud moments. . . . ignore the strange looks :)
Hi Sir Actor, Man Utd 2 Gooners 1
and Arsenal drop out of the title race. . . . well almost.
I tried to read the collection of shorts based on his notebooks from when he was a crime reporter in L.A. I couldn’t get into them, but then I was coming from the Bosch novels so maybe my expectation wasn’t quite right.
I’ll gloss over today’s result **cough, cough**
:D :DHarry is a true genius. I can’t wait for the new book in the Autumn when Micky Haller (Harry’s brother from the Lincoln Lawyer) and Harry team up.
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
IOh, to be in England
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England – now!II
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops – at the bent sprays edge –
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though thr fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children’s dower
– Far brighter that this gaudy melon-flower!Robert Browning (1812 – 89)
ahh that first fine careless rapture :oops:
“and He piled upon the whales white hump, the sum of the rage of his ancestors from Adam down; and if his chest had been a mortar he would have burst his hot hearts shell upon it”
to paraphrase Herman Melville!
Another great book is The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini. An extraordinary tale of friendship and betrayal “for you a thousand times over”
