Definitely not his best. There are hints...perhaps even whole chapters of the man to come. But on the whole it's clear that he was still a couple of years away from being the amazing author that we know and love. One major problem is Pinkie, who often comes off as more educated as he should. Ros...
I found some half dozen books of Graham Greene on my father's shelf when I was 12 or 13 and this one was my favourite of them. Some day I should re-read it as my memories are rather faint.
Now, this book has blown me away from it very first pages. Breathtaking. No time for thinking. You're chased and have no choice but run.And the fact I spent some time in Brighton first as a visiting teenager and then last year as a "visiting boyfriend" helped me a lot in being caught by the plot. Wh...
Once again, I find myself in the position of having to acknowledge that I think a writer talented and important, but I just can't get behind what he's written. I am fundamentally an optimistic person who enjoys literature with (ultimately) hopeful themes. I can take the despair and the grief as long...
I had an old, old ropey book of Brighton Rock and I thought I better read it before it fell apart. Well, it was the 1970-something edition and it had a dead fly more or less imprinted into one of the yellowing pages. It must have been at least 30 years old... you certainly don't expect to find fossi...
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