[ebooktalk] Re: MY CURRENT BOOK
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:50:27 +0100
Thanks Ian, I would like to start from the beginning with the series. Although
they do take a lot of concentration and are not light reads, I find he is very
good at building tention throughout the book and they are worth the work. They
are usually quite dark books and have a lot of facts in there too. A very good
author.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 9:19 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: MY CURRENT BOOK
> thanks Shell, in fact I've got on quite a long way with Dark Star today and
> am glad I did. Furst is very good at weaving real history into his fiction
> or is it weaving his fictional characters into real historical events. I
> think that, though this is a series, it's probably not, as you suggest, a
> serial and therefore it's possible to read the books as stand-alones. In
> return for your recommendation, I'd say you should definitely give the first
> one a go It's set among the turmoil of the Balkans in the 1920s. Dark Star,
> meanwhile, has a russian jew who is either a spy using journalism as a cover
> or is a journalist wooed into espionage. He is operating in the events
> surrounding and leading up to the start of WW2, including Krystalnacht and
> the invasion of Poland. Partly what's kept me going is the quality of the
> writing and the way in which Furst evokes period and atmosphere. I'll
> definitely read more of them.
> On 14 Jun 2013, at 20:47, Shell wrote:
>
>> Hi Ian,
>> I didn't realize that these were a series and so I read number 8 first, Dark
>> Voyage. It was the most fantastic book and so really exciting I couldn't put
>> it down. Then I read number 6, Kingdom of shadows, which I couldn't get
>> along with and finally number 3, The polish Officer, which I enjoyed, but
>> it was pretty hard work. So I don't know what to think, but if you don't
>> read any others I can highly recommend Dark voyage, even as a stand alone,
>> brilliant book.
>> Shell.
>>
>>
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>> From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:10 AM
>> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] MY CURRENT BOOK
>>
>> > There is a series of twelve books by Alan furst collectively entitled
>> > Night Soldiers. They are novels about espionage and intelligence but told
>> > from the Russian point of view. Last year I read the first of these and
>> > I'm currently on the second. However, it is very convoluted and demands
>> > great concentration and I'm finding it a bit of a slog. But , I don't
>> > really want to give it up as the first book kept many of its secrets until
>> > the end and was really very good. The second is called Dark Star and I
>> > wondered whether anyone else had read it and could give me either
>> > encouragement or tell me to jack it in.
>> >
>
>
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