You know you have turned into a curmudgeon when...you won't read an article in a major English-language newspaper that discusses an author called STIG LARSON.
- Bernadette
"Laura Wilson on Lost World by Patricia Melo, Cold to the Touch by Frances Fyfield, The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell and Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn"
- Karen Meek
from Bookmarklet
This is the 13th of Staalesen's 16 books about Veum. Arcadia pledges to publish them all; let's hope in Don Bartlett's customarily flawless translation.
- Karen Meek
from Bookmarklet
I'm currently reading The Writing on the Wall, which falls before this one, but can't remember exactly where. It's odd reading it, because the only other one I read is the second in the series, written nearly 20 years previously. I'm looking forward to Consorts - esp because of the translator ;-)
- Maxine
Finished it now, jolly good. Will immediately embark on the new one. (WonW turns out to be a few before Consorts, according to Euro Crime).
- Maxine
"The $13 million pic, the first in the "Millennium" trilogy based on Stieg Larsson's international bestsellers, is slated for U.S. release early next year."
- Karen Meek
from Bookmarklet
BEWARE: contains spoiler for book 2. (aargh)
- Karen Meek
Oh NO! Sorry, Karen, I should have read the review first and let you know (as I've read book 2). I was scared to in case there was a spoiler for bk 3 !
- Maxine
Well, but to be fair, it is not easy to write anything about the plot of book 3 without spoiling book 2.
- Dorte Jakobsen
While pleased to see so much crime fiction in there, the cynical side of me wonders how much of this is to do with marketing and how much to do with "best".....these novels are of course now being promoted via Times/WHS tie-ins etc.
- Maxine
As with Norman's review at Crime Scraps, v positive. "What also impresses is Kerr's examination of how a man changes – and how he stays the same – over 20 years, when those two decades are so desperate and blood-spattered. And the way that, despite a casual attitude to murder, a murky war record and the bitterness of life torn asunder by war, Gunther remains a sympathetic character despite his methods of survival. "
- Maxine
Joan Smith's review of the book in the same issue of the Sunday Times as this profile is here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol... . As usual could not find it via the Times website itself but got it through a Google search, then going via that to a blog which provided a link. Newspaper websites! The profile you link to states "review on p 49" (or whatever) but no direct link.
- Maxine
Also an interesting comment at the Times profile about Stieg's nutty politics (in the commenter's view.)
- Maxine
I think this quote from the review is very apt: "His phenomenal, if sadly posthumous, success comes from a combination of moral clarity and narrative skill rather than descriptive ability."
- Maxine
"This is visceral stuff: not, perhaps, Brookmyre on top form, but brimming with the scabrous inventiveness that is his métier."
- Karen Meek
from Bookmarklet
Not my cup of tea, based on the one by him I tried (and did not finish).
- Maxine