[ebooktalk] Re: MY CURRENT BOOK
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:19:03 +0100
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
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> 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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