Holy Crap I need to get reading! My $0.99 copy from Amazon still hasn't arrived, and I just picked up Joy's late Saturday. I'll try to power through this week!
Read 150 pages last night. Will try to finish tonight before NCIS comes on.
I loved the description of Christine's cooking -- reminded me a lot of you, Joy, with burnt hotdogs.
I find I'm not bothered by the killings, though stabbing Perkins in the eye was a tad gruesome and did give me a bit of a nightmare.
My prediction is that Lucy will leave her husband, somehow do something heroic to stop Faber and in so doing win Breggs' heart (was that his name? Christine's widower).
This was an excellent book! I keep telling Harold he would like it in hopes that he'll read it.
Here are some of my fave quotes: Pg 7 "She must be getting tiddly."
Pg 36 "Christine's cooking was truly awful. The sausages were burned. Bloggs drowned his meal in tomato ketchup and Godliman cheerfully followed suit."
Pg 156 "Jessie said, 'He held a knife to my throat and said, 'One false move and I'll slit your gizzard.' I beleive he meant it.' 'Oh, Jessie, you told me said, 'I won't harm you if you do as I say.' ' 'Words to that effect, Emma!' " (I loved these sisters!!)
Pg 215 "If I did what he suggested I do with my truncheon, I'd never be able to sit down again." followed closely by " 'I've got your information, and I hope it was fuckin' worth it.' Bloggs grinned. This was, undoubtedly, the harbormaster ... Kincaid said, 'Come in, captain. How did you get so wet? You shouldn't go out in the rain.' 'Fuck off,' the Captain said.."
Pg 311 "Machines were simple, she was convinced; it was aprehension and not stupidity that made women fumble when faced with a piece of engineering." ~*~*~*~*~*~
Was it just me, or did you kind of feel yourself rooting for Faber through the center of the book? Maybe because so much of the action was told from his perspective.
There were a few very tiny side stories that I think could have been left out, like about the boy who found Jessie and Emma's car, and the farmer who's bull charged the inflatable tank, etc.. that weren't really essential to moving the plot along. I usually figure if an author names a character and gives a decent background on him, then he's going to reappear in the story and I shouldn't skim over it.
My prediction was fairly acurate, but I did not foresee Lucy sleeping with Faber at all! However, I see now that if I had read the back cover of the book i would have seen it coming. Oh well. And how about when she took one for the team to get out of the house! Very clever - sex them up and leave them wanting more.
I was very surprised that Faber did not just kill Lucy at the very end of the book. After all the times she had "outwitted" him, I can't believe that he would just run off down over the cliff and leave her to throw things at him.
Also wanted to mention that I liked the portrayals of both Churchill and Hitler, but that I liked the description of Rundstedt in Chapter 30 even more. "I'm like an old calvary horse, he thought. If I stayed at home I would feel ashamed." Doesn't like what his country is doing, but has to defend it just the same.
It is next on Ken's reading list. My description to him: "Sex, murder, espionage. You should read it." I think I had him at "sex". :-)
I was routing for Faber right to the end too and felt guilty doing it. Also had that problem with Dracula- I was on Dracula's side for most of the book. At the very end, when she is dropping the rock/clod of dirt, I was hoping she would miss and he would somehow get away. I'm actually still a little heartbroken that he didn't.
The feminist part of me likes that she could kill him for her country even after having very enjoyable sex with him. HOWEVER, another part of me feels like she betrayed him. He, the consumate spy, could not bring himself to kill her and yet she could chop off his fingers, poke him in the eyes, and eventually kill him. It seems rather harsh.
I really like that Follett gives us a "bad" character that we can like. That just adds so much to the book, in my opinion.
I rather enjoyed the interplay between the commander of the submarine and the Abwehr (sp?) agent. I imagine this is how a lot of military men in Hitler Germany and Soviet Union felt about the party representatives.
I kept waiting thru the entire book for Lucy to show up again, since she was introduced in the Part 1. The part where I really cringed and felt pain was when she put her finger in the light socket to circumvent the radio. I swear I felt electricity shoot down my arm.
Also found out this was made into a movie. Another one to watch Thanksgiving, Angie?
Now a Follett fan, went to the library yesterday and got 2 more of his - Dangerous Fortune and Pillars of the Earth. Pillars is quite a substantial book - 973 pages and I read 80 of them last night. Not a spy novel, but a medieval novel about the building of a cathedral.
I greatly felt the mother protection thing with Lucy at the end. I'm sure she felt Faber would stop at nothing and would kill her child. I would have chopped his fingers off too.
I guess I can't get all my thoughts together at once (this cold).
Anyway, I especially liked the description of bleak in the beginning of the book where Follett is describing the island where Lucy lives. It sounded like an English assignment to me "Write an essay describing bleak". I would have given Follett an A hands down.
Watched the movie a couple of days ago with Ken (who is only half way through the book). It had Donald Sutherland as Die Nadel. I thought he did a pretty good job playing Die Nadel. All around, though, I wasn't impressed with the movie. They changed quite a bit, especially the ending fight sequence. There was little to no coverage of the British authorities attempting to capture Die Nadel, and didn't show them coming to the island at the end. Oh well, that's the way it goes with movies, I guess.
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Favorite line so far "What wouldn't I fookin' give for a fookin' cup of fookin' tea.' followed by "He no longer went to prayer meetings."
I find I'm reading this with a fookin' British accent.
I am fookin' using fookin' in a lot of my fookin' conversations now, and I haven't even recvd the fookin' book yet!
Oh my! There is QUITE some descriptive sex in the later passages of the fookin' book.
I said "fookin'" to Ken the other night and he looked at me like I was crazy. Lookin' forward to the fookin' sex (is that redundant?). :-)
I can't wait to get my fookin' book - I like some fire in the loins!
Just finished and loved it. Part 6 moves right along. Excellent read. I wish there was a movie.....
I LOVE the little old lady with the empty shotgun. She is my favorite character so far, even though she only shows up in one chapter.
Two comments until Angie finishes:
1. Jolly good show, or rather, jolly good read.
2. Lucy is my hero.
Holy Crap I need to get reading! My $0.99 copy from Amazon still hasn't arrived, and I just picked up Joy's late Saturday. I'll try to power through this week!
Read 150 pages last night. Will try to finish tonight before NCIS comes on.
I loved the description of Christine's cooking -- reminded me a lot of you, Joy, with burnt hotdogs.
I find I'm not bothered by the killings, though stabbing Perkins in the eye was a tad gruesome and did give me a bit of a nightmare.
My prediction is that Lucy will leave her husband, somehow do something heroic to stop Faber and in so doing win Breggs' heart (was that his name? Christine's widower).
This was an excellent book! I keep telling Harold he would like it in hopes that he'll read it.
Here are some of my fave quotes:
Pg 7 "She must be getting tiddly."
Pg 36 "Christine's cooking was truly awful. The sausages were burned. Bloggs drowned his meal in tomato ketchup and Godliman cheerfully followed suit."
Pg 156 "Jessie said, 'He held a knife to my throat and said, 'One false move and I'll slit your gizzard.' I beleive he meant it.'
'Oh, Jessie, you told me said, 'I won't harm you if you do as I say.' '
'Words to that effect, Emma!' "
(I loved these sisters!!)
Pg 215 "If I did what he suggested I do with my truncheon, I'd never be able to sit down again."
followed closely by
" 'I've got your information, and I hope it was fuckin' worth it.'
Bloggs grinned. This was, undoubtedly, the harbormaster ... Kincaid said, 'Come in, captain. How did you get so wet? You shouldn't go out in the rain.'
'Fuck off,' the Captain said.."
Pg 311 "Machines were simple, she was convinced; it was aprehension and not stupidity that made women fumble when faced with a piece of engineering."
~*~*~*~*~*~
Was it just me, or did you kind of feel yourself rooting for Faber through the center of the book? Maybe because so much of the action was told from his perspective.
There were a few very tiny side stories that I think could have been left out, like about the boy who found Jessie and Emma's car, and the farmer who's bull charged the inflatable tank, etc.. that weren't really essential to moving the plot along. I usually figure if an author names a character and gives a decent background on him, then he's going to reappear in the story and I shouldn't skim over it.
My prediction was fairly acurate, but I did not foresee Lucy sleeping with Faber at all! However, I see now that if I had read the back cover of the book i would have seen it coming. Oh well. And how about when she took one for the team to get out of the house! Very clever - sex them up and leave them wanting more.
I was very surprised that Faber did not just kill Lucy at the very end of the book. After all the times she had "outwitted" him, I can't believe that he would just run off down over the cliff and leave her to throw things at him.
Also wanted to mention that I liked the portrayals of both Churchill and Hitler, but that I liked the description of Rundstedt in Chapter 30 even more. "I'm like an old calvary horse, he thought. If I stayed at home I would feel ashamed." Doesn't like what his country is doing, but has to defend it just the same.
It is next on Ken's reading list. My description to him: "Sex, murder, espionage. You should read it." I think I had him at "sex". :-)
I was routing for Faber right to the end too and felt guilty doing it. Also had that problem with Dracula- I was on Dracula's side for most of the book. At the very end, when she is dropping the rock/clod of dirt, I was hoping she would miss and he would somehow get away. I'm actually still a little heartbroken that he didn't.
The feminist part of me likes that she could kill him for her country even after having very enjoyable sex with him. HOWEVER, another part of me feels like she betrayed him. He, the consumate spy, could not bring himself to kill her and yet she could chop off his fingers, poke him in the eyes, and eventually kill him. It seems rather harsh.
I really like that Follett gives us a "bad" character that we can like. That just adds so much to the book, in my opinion.
I rather enjoyed the interplay between the commander of the submarine and the Abwehr (sp?) agent. I imagine this is how a lot of military men in Hitler Germany and Soviet Union felt about the party representatives.
Good choice, Joy.
I kept waiting thru the entire book for Lucy to show up again, since she was introduced in the Part 1. The part where I really cringed and felt pain was when she put her finger in the light socket to circumvent the radio. I swear I felt electricity shoot down my arm.
Also found out this was made into a movie. Another one to watch Thanksgiving, Angie?
Now a Follett fan, went to the library yesterday and got 2 more of his - Dangerous Fortune and Pillars of the Earth. Pillars is quite a substantial book - 973 pages and I read 80 of them last night. Not a spy novel, but a medieval novel about the building of a cathedral.
I greatly felt the mother protection thing with Lucy at the end. I'm sure she felt Faber would stop at nothing and would kill her child. I would have chopped his fingers off too.
I guess I can't get all my thoughts together at once (this cold).
Anyway, I especially liked the description of bleak in the beginning of the book where Follett is describing the island where Lucy lives. It sounded like an English assignment to me "Write an essay describing bleak". I would have given Follett an A hands down.
Lucy and Faber reminded me a lot of "All I want to do is make love to you" by Heart. I hope that's the song that plays in the movie when they hook up.
Watched the movie a couple of days ago with Ken (who is only half way through the book). It had Donald Sutherland as Die Nadel. I thought he did a pretty good job playing Die Nadel. All around, though, I wasn't impressed with the movie. They changed quite a bit, especially the ending fight sequence. There was little to no coverage of the British authorities attempting to capture Die Nadel, and didn't show them coming to the island at the end. Oh well, that's the way it goes with movies, I guess.
Oh, and they didn't play that song when Lucy and Faber hooked up, Angie.
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