Tag: Thriller
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Rebecca
Review: I was enchanted for the first 30 pages but then it just went on and on. An influential novel, an important novel. A tiresome novel. Rebecca, or, Proust-writes-a-thriller. There was no need for this to be 428 pages. Even if you just cut out every description of scones you could trim a hundred pages.… Read more
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The Key to Rebecca
Review: A thrilling thriller! A lusty romp through 1942 Cairo, fez wearing baddies chasing or being chased by sturdy British soldiers and all either spies or being spied upon. A page turner for sure, some of it far-fetched, some of it fairly accurate, tales of high adventure tend to be that way. A good author,… Read more
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The Dead Zone
Review: Well that was the first Stephen King book I have read. Not that I was avoiding it, but when you read as much as I do, coupled with a 25 year beer break, some books and authors get missed. This was brilliant, amazing, beautifully crafted. Scary, sure. But more importantly it makes you feel… Read more
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Vitals
Review: An excellent, thrilling, spooky, paranoid journey into what was (in 2000) the near future, now the near past. You see this with references to VHS, and the differing formats, as well as “the team set to work with digital cameras.” Like there are other types of camera, still were in 2000. It was fast… Read more