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adam_mcphee's Reviews (2.87k)
Not quite as funny as Jeeves and Wooster, which is strange because this really should be a winning formula. Kind of reminded me of Irvine Welsh, if he was kinder and more posh.
I received a free copy of this book from GoodReads.
A good history of the lead up to the First World War. MacMillan is at her best when she's describing the people making the decisions. The Kaiser and Archduke Franz Ferdinand make for particularly good subjects because of just how eccentric they were and how out of touch they can sometimes come across as. Also of interest is development and shaping of public opinion, which perhaps for the first time was a factor that leaders could ignore only at their own peril.
A good history of the lead up to the First World War. MacMillan is at her best when she's describing the people making the decisions. The Kaiser and Archduke Franz Ferdinand make for particularly good subjects because of just how eccentric they were and how out of touch they can sometimes come across as. Also of interest is development and shaping of public opinion, which perhaps for the first time was a factor that leaders could ignore only at their own peril.
A horror story set in Kenora, Ontario of all places. Except back then it was called Rat Portage, because they hadn't invented tourism boards yet.
How is it that for every great book Nakamura writes, he also comes up with one piece of incomprehensible garbage? I don't get it. For a long time I wanted to blame the translators, but it's the same people translating the books.
It's a very simplistic writing style, and while it comes off as almost Hemingwayesque in The Thief and The Gun, it's childish and ridiculous here. And the philosophizing is dumb (there's a part where someone talks about gnosticism in terms of gods having low level powers, like in video games).
The only reason I even finished the book is because I'd read that this was connected to his magnificent The Thief (without being a sequel or prequel) but it's not much of a connection at all, and even with the book being so short it was a complete waste of time.
It's a very simplistic writing style, and while it comes off as almost Hemingwayesque in The Thief and The Gun, it's childish and ridiculous here. And the philosophizing is dumb (there's a part where someone talks about gnosticism in terms of gods having low level powers, like in video games).
The only reason I even finished the book is because I'd read that this was connected to his magnificent The Thief (without being a sequel or prequel) but it's not much of a connection at all, and even with the book being so short it was a complete waste of time.
