Monthly Archives: March 2007

the heart is a lonely hunter — carson mccullers

2 stars

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March 29, 2007 – 16:17 | By eb | Posted in don't bother, general fiction, into movies | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

fever pitch — nick hornby

3 stars

Although the book is about foot­ball, foot­ball and foot­ball Hornby’s style of writ­ing drew me to the book repeat­edly. With his choice of words, his dis­tinc­tive (Eng­lish) humor he gets to me every time.

At times he is really funny, but at other times he can be seri­ous about things hap­pen­ing in the (soccer-)world, like dis­crim­i­na­tion of play­ers and deaths as a result of van­dal­ism. This makes the book more than just an easy trib­ute to the game.

I enjoyed myself read­ing it.

this is a pre­view of fever pitch — nick hornby. read the full post (89 words & 1 image, esti­mated 21 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 16:12 | By eb | Posted in humor, into movies | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

quite honestly — john mortimer

3 stars

Lucinda (Lucy) Pure­foy wants to change the world. She wants to do good in the world and where bet­ter to start than with young offend­ers just com­ing out of jail.
That is why she joins an orga­ni­za­tion called SCRAP and she is wait­ing for a Terry Kee­gan at the gates of Worm­wood Scrubs.
This meet­ing is the begin­ning of a rela­tion­ship between the two in which both their char­ac­ters and endurance is put to the test.

this is a pre­view of quite hon­estly — john mor­timer. read the full post (143 words & 1 image, esti­mated 34 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 10:38 | By eb | Posted in humor | Tagged , | Comments (0)

the quiet american — graham greene

3 stars

Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle are friends against their will in a time of war. Fowler is a British jour­nal­ist who won’t take sides and Pyle is “the quiet Amer­i­can” with his own agenda who seems like a young and naive man.
At the begin­ning of the book Fowler learns that Pyle is dead. The rest of the book is the time that Fowler and Pyle knew each other, told by Fowler. We get to know how they met, how Pyle takes Fowler’s girl Phuong, how Pyle saves Fowler from being killed and how (besides all this) they are des­tined to get to know each other.

this is a pre­view of the quiet amer­i­can — gra­ham greene. read the full post (213 words & 1 image, esti­mated 51 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 10:34 | By eb | Posted in general fiction, into movies | Tagged , , | Comments (0)