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Comments Off on The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura

The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura


2016
11.21

“I have the feeling many people wouldn’t like this noir thriller. It has some disturbing descriptions in it. If you have read or watched Audition by Ryu Murakami then you are approaching similar Japanese, no punches pulled thriller.
The lead character who it’s hard to like, incapacitates important businessman and Politicians and photographs them in uncompromising situations, this is held in a database to wield the threat if they don’t tow the underworld line of power. Things go wrong…
A weird 6/10

Score 6/10

Date read November 2016

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Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut


2016
11.05

“I can’t get this book! Many reviews elsewhere, some love it others give it poor scores.
It’s a war novel, a sort of sci-fi, madness, too complicated for me I’m afraid!
5/10

Score 5/10

Date read November 2016

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Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie


2016
10.21

“Never having read an Agatha Christie novel before I thought I should. Looks like a picked the wrong one, it was dreadful!
If this is her attempt to pen a James Bond thriller type of book then it falls well short. I’m sharing a review of this novel from when it was first published. but my score is 2/10
Robert Barnard: “”The last of the thrillers, and one that slides from the unlikely to the inconceivable and finally lands up in incomprehensible muddle. Prizes should be offered to readers who can explain the ending. Concerns the youth uproar of the ‘sixties, drugs, a new Aryan superman and so on, subjects of which Christie’s grasp was, to say the least, uncertain (she seems to have the oddest idea of what the term ‘Third World’ means, for example). Collins insisted she subtitle the book ‘An Extravaganza.’ One can think of other descriptions.””

Score 2/10

Date read October 2016

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Glitz by Elmore Leonard


2016
09.16

“Leonard has written tons of books (over 40) of which some have made it to Hollywood such as Rum Punch, Get Shorty. I can’t recall reading his novels so have travelled back to 1985 to read Glitz (yes a charity shop purchase!)
No doubt he’s a good writer and I like his very typical Chandleresque American thriller/detective style.
As for the novel I’ve forgotten it within a few pages of starting another book, but it’s the pleasure of being immersed in a book for the moment of entertainment why I liked it.
6/10

Score 6/10

Date read September 2016

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