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I picked up Jo Nesbo's Macbeth last week, and frankly, am disappointed (Yes, I am familiar with Shakespeare's work). The problem, from my point of view, is that it lacks the knowledge of police procedure necessary to a good whodunit, and the author seems unfamiliar, or unwilling to learn and depict the infrastructural, geographical and architectural details unique to any city, settling for a bland somewhere in Northern Europe; give me Jonathan Kellerman or J A Jance any day.
Not meant to detract from the fine efforts of a number of contemporary European mystery writers, however.
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I am about a fourth of the way into Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk (author of Marjorie Morningstar, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War...). Written in 1965, it is a funny, old-fashioned tale of a stressed out New York press agent who decides to buy a resort on a little Caribbean island. The writing is charming and the many characters are so vivid I can picture each of them!
Oddly, in 1998, Jimmy Buffet approached Wouk to buy the rights for this book so he could write and produce a musical based on it. The two ended up collaborating and the Don't Stop the Carnival played in Miami for 6 weeks. Jimmy Buffet admits that it wasn't ready for Broadway and they collectively decided to "mothball" the project.
(A word of warning however for sensitive readers - Wouk uses some words to describe the black islanders and gays that we just don't use anymore)
I have the soundtrack but never knew the story. Thanks.
I just finished up "The Outsider" by Stephen King last night. The family got it for me this Father's Day and I couldn't put it down.
It started off like more of a murder mystery but eventually there was a plot twist like only S.K. is known for. Well worth the read if you're a King fan. He did not disappoint.
I'm reading Us Against You which is the follow up of Beartown. I am enjoying it.
Yesterday someone brought a new author to my attention, well an old author but one I have never read. Has anyone read Beginnings: The Story of Origins by Isaac Asimov? It looks very good. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41828.Beginnings
I'll be finishing Tim Butcher's 'The Trigger - The hunt for Gavrilo Princip: the assassin who brought the world to war' this evening. Princip was the youth who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, thereby triggering the First World War. It's as good as I hoped it would be, a enjoyable and informative book about an obscure, but important piece of history, which blends in Butcher's own experiences as a journalist in Bosnia during the Balkans War of the 1990s.
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