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A carregar... Dying to Tell (2001)por Robert Goddard
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. As an audiobook this was very entertainingly performed: I enjoyed spending time with the protagonist, the villain was especially creepy, and the Japanese accents were great. But good acting can't save a half-baked story. Half-baked is exactly what I mean--it just wasn't finished. How in the world did Lance talk himself out of the mess at the end? What happened when Echo went to the police? And why did Rupe become a diabolical mastermind in the first place? That's the real mystery at the heart of this story. And it's never addressed. Read it once and I remember I liked it. Will have to read it again to remember exactly what this book was all about and write a proper review. Intend to release it at the meeting on Terschelling, so will be reading this one this week. Apart from a few pages, I did finish this book (train and ferry time are sooo good for reading books!) And I liked it. Re-reading it after a long period of time did not really ring a bell for the contents or the story line of this book. In itself that already says a lot, because usually I remember after reading one or two pages. Not this time. So, reading it, I liked it, but it was not really a WOW. What annoyed me most was the never ending repetition of events. Maybe not exactly the same, but close enough to make it feel like a repetition to me. Lance is going out on a search for his best friend from childhood and gets himself into all kinds of trouble. Travels around the globe in the trail of Rube, but he finds nothing but people who want to kill him (and his temporary partners in search) and people who die or refuse to tell what the big secret was that was written down in the letter Rupe has stolen. I guess that is an important part of the book, the reason why the story goes like it does, but I got impatient when the search went on and nothing was revelaed but the bits and pieces the main character puts together from the information he gathers along the way. All in all I found it a bit disappointing. Goddard is een van mijn favoriete schrijvers. In zijn verhaallijnen kun je vaak merken dat hij geschiedenis heeft gestudeerd. Het verhaal begint vaak heel traag met altijd een hoofdpersoon die tegensputtert en als het ware het verhaal wordt ingetrokken net als jij als lezer. Dan begint het verhaal te lopen als een trein met verschillende verhaallijnen die Goddard heel knap allemaal bij elkaar brengt. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"It is autumn in the Somerset town of Glastonbury. Lance Bradley is idling away his life there as usual when he receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Inexplicably, Rupe has stopped sending the money that his dysfunctional siblings depend on. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London to learn what he can, only to find that his friend has vanished. Rupe's employers, a shipping company, believe he is guilty of a major fraud. A Japanese businessman called Hashimoto claims he has stolen a document of life and death importance. And a private detective, who has been trying to trace on Rupe's behalf an American called Townley, has been warned off by unnamed but immensely powerful interests. Townley, it seems, was involved in a mysterious death at Wilderness Farm, near Glastonbury, back in 1963, that year of so many shattering events which just happens also to be the year of Lance's birth." "No sooner has Lance decided that whatever Rupe was up to is too risky for him to get involved in than he finds that he already is involved, and the only way out is to get in deeper still. Where is Rupe? What is the document he has stolen? Who is Townley? And what happened in the summer of 1963 that holds the key to a secret more devastating than Lance Bradley could ever have imagined?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I've always enjoyed Robert Goddard novels and I found this one to be an engrossing, entertaining mystery, with an excellent plot and brightened with some light humour. ( )