the gun seller
I finished Hugh Laure's The gun seller today and Well, first, I have to say that I'm very annoyed how the publisher who published the book in our country did the cover. The other covers I've seen for this book were much more decent. They cut out Hugh's face (as House, of course, they probably thought it will be very good for marketing) and pasted it over a woman's legs and a car. And in a very bad way. And I don't think it really has anything to do with the book itself so yeah, let's just forget it.
Anyway, about the book itself. It was enjoyable from beginning to end, the quality rarely went down, and even if it did, it wasn't that big deal. It was written in first person, so all the things are centered around the main character. This left little room to really introduce or develop the others, but I didn't find that bothering at all, because the whole feeling of the book wasn't that character oriented, and it was fine this way. The story was a kind of crime/action story, which wasn't that big of a deal, but the constant humour and the personality of the main character (named Thomas Lang, by the way) made up for everything which might have felt a bit lacking. I was also pleased with how the story ended, and I was happy that out of Sarah and Ronnie, it was Ronnie who remained in the end, and not Sarah. I wouldn't say that I liked any of them too much, but I preferred Ronnie over Sarah much more. To be honest, other than the main character, there wasn't anyone else who grew on me, but I guess that's because of what I wrote earlier. And one more funny thing: while I was reading The Gun Seller, the writing style reminded me many times of the Jeeves books from P.G. Wodehouse(I only read one book, though, but I plan to read some more, because that kind of english humor is entertaining) and now that I searched the gun seller on wikipedia, I found this:
'There were two main influences on Laurie when he wrote The Gun Seller:
* The thriller/espionage novels of authors such as Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth and Alistair MacLean. The plot of The Gun Seller is very much in the mould of these authors.
* P. G. Wodehouse, specifically the Jeeves stories. The two main characters in The Gun Seller - Thomas Lang and his former colleague Solomon - are clearly an updated Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. This similarity extends as far as the narrative being told in the first person by Lang, using a chatty, jokey and flippant style similar to that of the Jeeves stories.'
Anyway, I was suprised that this book is so old, and it was only published here in 2007. Probably because of that House MD got really popular here in the past 1-1/1/2 years or so, and so did Hugh Laurie because of that. Speaking of that series, I haven't watched it in ages. I really enjoyed the first season until the last few episodes, but then the second season was just boring, so I just forgot to watch it sometimes, then didn't really feel like wathcing it at all. I wonder how the other seasons are, but I would have a tons of episodes to catch up with, so I dunno.
wirbelwind11 showed me a pretty good avatar video, and now I can't stop listening to that track. And it also reminded me of how much I miss avatar,and I want new episodes now, because I think it has been more than a month since the last one. Anyway, here's a link to the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUBupBQSFo
Anyway, about the book itself. It was enjoyable from beginning to end, the quality rarely went down, and even if it did, it wasn't that big deal. It was written in first person, so all the things are centered around the main character. This left little room to really introduce or develop the others, but I didn't find that bothering at all, because the whole feeling of the book wasn't that character oriented, and it was fine this way. The story was a kind of crime/action story, which wasn't that big of a deal, but the constant humour and the personality of the main character (named Thomas Lang, by the way) made up for everything which might have felt a bit lacking. I was also pleased with how the story ended, and I was happy that out of Sarah and Ronnie, it was Ronnie who remained in the end, and not Sarah. I wouldn't say that I liked any of them too much, but I preferred Ronnie over Sarah much more. To be honest, other than the main character, there wasn't anyone else who grew on me, but I guess that's because of what I wrote earlier. And one more funny thing: while I was reading The Gun Seller, the writing style reminded me many times of the Jeeves books from P.G. Wodehouse(I only read one book, though, but I plan to read some more, because that kind of english humor is entertaining) and now that I searched the gun seller on wikipedia, I found this:
'There were two main influences on Laurie when he wrote The Gun Seller:
* The thriller/espionage novels of authors such as Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth and Alistair MacLean. The plot of The Gun Seller is very much in the mould of these authors.
* P. G. Wodehouse, specifically the Jeeves stories. The two main characters in The Gun Seller - Thomas Lang and his former colleague Solomon - are clearly an updated Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. This similarity extends as far as the narrative being told in the first person by Lang, using a chatty, jokey and flippant style similar to that of the Jeeves stories.'
Anyway, I was suprised that this book is so old, and it was only published here in 2007. Probably because of that House MD got really popular here in the past 1-1/1/2 years or so, and so did Hugh Laurie because of that. Speaking of that series, I haven't watched it in ages. I really enjoyed the first season until the last few episodes, but then the second season was just boring, so I just forgot to watch it sometimes, then didn't really feel like wathcing it at all. I wonder how the other seasons are, but I would have a tons of episodes to catch up with, so I dunno.
wirbelwind11 showed me a pretty good avatar video, and now I can't stop listening to that track. And it also reminded me of how much I miss avatar,and I want new episodes now, because I think it has been more than a month since the last one. Anyway, here's a link to the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUBupBQSFo