It's all true about melodrama and an impossible number of improbable coincidences. But there's one redeeming feature: this book is quite well-written as regards language, unlike most of the ordinary light reading.
bookshelves: spring-2015, radio-4x, published-1927, britain-scotland, adventure, historical-fiction, black-magic Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from April 02 to 09, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pmjb6Description: Set against the religious struggles and civil wars of sevente...
I enjoyed this action-adventure light story. It wasn't thrilling by today's thriller standards, but I had fun with it. I enjoyed the Scotland setting, too.
I'd heard the title of this book (and accompanying movie) many times before, but didn't realize it was a spy thriller (I thought it was horror instead, perhaps due to the Alfred Hitchock movie connection?). It's definitely a fairly thrilling read for the most part -- the descriptions of the Scottis...
”I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel.” Richard Hanney in The 39 Steps. In the edition that I read Toby Buchan, grandson of John Buchan, wrote an introduction that was almost an apology. About ha...
Proper adventure book with British government in peril, beautiful rich women in peril and a lot of good eggs dashing around. Set before the railways (about the first decade of the 1800s)so most of the dashing around is done by coach. Wonderful technical descriptions of the transport - lots of differ...
While this adventure/spy novel wasn't particularly tense or exciting, it's short enough that it didn't get too dull. To a modern reader, used to double agents, moles, and triple-crossers, the plot seems rather straight forward, and Rochard Hannay is no James Bond. Despite being the hero, he doesn't ...
I've finished the first book in this volume, The Thirty-Nine Steps, so my rating is currently based on that one novel.Well written and easy to read. The first person narrative gets you into Hannay's adventures very quickly. Cracking stuff!
A lightweight as far as thrillers go but it is one of the earliest so that does count for something. I can't say any of it really surprised me but I did feel I was being pulled along on an adventure.What I did appreciate about this book was the glimpse into the politics that surrounded the first Wor...
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