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TodSpence 07/11/2010 06:19 AM Report
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clarity 07/02/2010 09:11 AM Report
Furst's books are remarkably well-researched, his modesty about historicity notwithstanding. Especially interesting is his understanding of the relationship between Hitler and Stalin as it pertains to their mutual "Jewish problems."
clarity 07/02/2010 09:05 AM Report
Charlie is back to his old habits: Barely let Furst get a word in edgewise. Before Furst could even start to answer a question, Charlie would (3 out of 4) cut him off with a new question. As well, Charlie's speech, hemming and hawing and emphasizing things to draw attention to himself, wasted a great deal of time (Furst seemed amused).
REMant 07/01/2010 11:41 AM Report
BTW, Hitchcock based Secret Agent (1936) on two of Maugham's Ashenden stories, and there was a BBC series in 1991.
REMant 07/01/2010 11:41 AM Report
I don't know about Ambler. But, at least, as in Greene, early LeCarre, and Simenon the story trumps the nonsense. I read one of his not long ago, a Vertigo-type story called A Kind of Anger, whose only failing was that I already knew the idea. It would have made a good film in the '60s when it was written, I think. However, I don't find much of anything mysterious anymore, and in particular I find wars and spies tedious, if not irrelevant. I picked up my first book in the spy and detective genre in a European airport about 40 years ago. It was a Simenon - Maigret and the Lazy burglar, a good one - and quickly polished off all 70 or so available in English translation. Poking around in libraries tho I discovered Simenon to be rather unique and the number of really good such novels to be rather small. The other day in a hospital waiting room I picked up a copy of a Travis Magee I'm sure I'd read long ago, and found it pretty insipid except for the periodic philosophical aside - "The occasional fisherman tells of triumphs. The compulsive ones relate only disaster" - and comment about contemporary society. But I was sure his latest girlfriend would not survive. I like the fellow as a type, but not the bluster or daring-do. But I doubt, in fact, Magee would approve of himself. And the model has been copied ad nauseam. Colin Dexter's Morse isn't really different. It's all too Mitty-esque.