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“With a return ticket, courage becomes an intellectual exercise.”

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

February 18, 2021 by ingres77 1 Comment

From 1951-54, Graham Greene was a foreign correspondent in French Indochina.  Contrary to the belief of some, Edward Lansdale (a pioneer of American intelligence operations) was not the inspiration for the character of Pyle (the titular Quiet American). Greene instead based the character on a man named Leo Hochstetter, with whom he shared a room and traveled to Saigon from Ben Tre. Hochstetter lectured Greene on finding a “third force” in Vietnam: a democratic alternative to colonialism and communism. The Quiet American takes place in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: colonialism, Graham Green, Graham Greene, The Quiet American, Vietnam

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: colonialism, Graham Green, Graham Greene, The Quiet American, Vietnam ·
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I was not sorry when my brother died.

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill

House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday

The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

The Regulators by Stephen King

The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon

Skellig by David Almond

September 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Nervous Conditions – 4/5 This is one of those books that has been around for awhile, was highly lauded when it came out, and made the rounds in a few college courses and high school English departments. It was even given to me as a possible book to teach my first year of teaching for tenth graders. I promptly declined because I was brand new and didn’t have time to read something and create material for it. And I will be honest, I don’t like […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: Carl Sagan, Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, David Almond, Diana Athill, Graham Greene, jean stafford, jrr tolkien, nervous conditions, Scott Momaday, Stephen King, Tsitsi Dangarembga, WE Bowman

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:521 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: Carl Sagan, Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, David Almond, Diana Athill, Graham Greene, jean stafford, jrr tolkien, nervous conditions, Scott Momaday, Stephen King, Tsitsi Dangarembga, WE Bowman ·
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“Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of a tragedy.”

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

July 17, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

In Cuba, shortly before the end of the Batista regime, James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited for the Secret Intelligence Service by an ambitious agent. He begins to fabricate information in order to earn money for his daughter’s education, but soon finds himself in more dangerous waters than he expected. This is a pretty good black comedy that makes fun of intelligence services and is genuinely hilarious, with the standout scene for me the one in which the agent who recruited Wormold notices […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adaptation, cbr12bingo, Graham Greene

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adaptation, cbr12bingo, Graham Greene ·
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Not that I have time to think of the poor fellow much.

Travels with my Aunt by Grahame Green

November 1, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

One of the mid to late Graham Greene novels, long after his probably more famous classics like Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, The Power and the Glory, and The Heart of the Matter, this novel is from 1969 and involves a middle aged bank manager on the cusp of retirement going along with his elderly aunt on a series of world travels. Don’t let the prosaic basic plot outline fool you, however. The two are reunited at his mother’s, her sister’s, funeral and when she finds […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Graham Greene, Grahame Green, travels with my aunt

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:601 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Graham Greene, Grahame Green, travels with my aunt ·
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One never knows when the blow may fall.

The Third Man by Graham Greene

September 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you haven’t seen this movie, you just should. It’s so wonderful. The book is about Rollo Martins, a cheap novelist, coming to Vienna during the split occupation looking for a business opportunity with his old school friend Harry Lime. When he gets there, Harry Lime has been killed and Martins works to solve the case. The novella is told through the perspective of a British military police officer looking more so to maintain order than to solve the crime, so having this hack novelist […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Graham Greene, the third man

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:531 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Graham Greene, the third man ·
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