'The Quiet American' is dark, thoughtful, meticulously crafted, and full of suspense. Thomas Fowler is a British war correspondent who has been in Vietnam for two years. Not being French or Vietnamese, he sees himself as disinterested and apart from the conflict. The novel begins with him waiting fo...
I was expecting more of a spy novel with this one. No, I did not read the back cover or reviews or really anything about this book. I suppose my prejudice stemmed from something I (miss?)read about Graham Greene. However, I was pleasantly surprised with this book and really enjoyed it. Some passages...
Title: Death of the Black-Haired Girl Who wrote it? Robert Stone: multi-award winning, Pulitzer nommed heavy weight, best known for Dog Soldiers, which nabbed him a National Book Award for Fiction. Plot in a Box: The death of a beautiful, reckless student unravels the lives of her family, ...
But here you go, you can have it anyway. It's not often I close a book and have absolutely no idea what to put in my review. I thought this novel was pretty close to brilliant, but I feel like - I don't know - there's more to this than I even understand. I know what happened and I could tell you, ...
Rating = 3.5 stars"How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way."It's a story as old as academia. Adolescent co-ed falls for, and falls into bed with, her university professor. It doesn't matter if he's paunchy in plaid or sexy in silk shirts. Sh...
I like complicated moral conundrums like the one in this book so I'll be reading the other Greene novels I have here at home. He apparently didn't think much of his own style but I'll have to respectfully disagree since I think his prose is just perfect for the kind of stories he tells. He reminds m...
Man, this book is sweet. Tightly coiled and perfectly executed. From today's standpoint, or at least from mine, this book has some interesting things to say about terrorism. : because that's what Pyle is, isn't it? He's a terrorist.I'm looking forward to reading more Greene. If this is the kind of t...
Although I enjoyed the book, I assume that the people who awarded it the National Book Award and the others who put it on Time's Top 100 List, were already adults during the period of time that the book takes place. I'm sure that because of this, the book that apparently "perfectly captured the und...
Westerns aren't usually my thing but this was an excellent read, following the citizens of Warlock (Hall's fictional version of Tombstone) as they engage in the futile pursuit of hero-worship. They could easily be the Americans of the late 1950's when the book was published or more particularly--us....
From: Linus's Blanket. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American has been sitting on my shelf for a good long while, and this year’s resolve to read more freely has finally gifted me with the opportunity to take it down off the shelf. Its intriguing beginning introduces Thomas Fowler, an English journalist...
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