Advantages: PI character, Belfast setting, a cast of potentially interesting characters Disadvantages: Characters not really developed enough
mostly felt quite detached from the story.
Millar makes an effort to establish his detective as a sympathetic character ? a dark past, a father, an ex-wife and teenage daughter, a current romantic interest, thwarted literary ambitions, a sense of humour and regular discomfort from his piles ? but he stays a fictional character. Millar uses a lot of quotations from other literary works, Irish, American and English, 16th and 20th century, but for me the references to Raymond Chandler only made me feel disappointed that Karl Kane isn't really Belfast's answer to Philip Marlowe. The most emotionally moving scenes in the book involved Karl and his father, and these are not central to the main story.
I would probably try another book in this series if I came across one, but wouldn't actively seek one out. I am more tempted by the author ...
Advantages: Still to the high standards of the first film Disadvantages: 152 minutes in length!
Gordon off to a tee. Gordon as a character has a destiny and I hope that in the following films that this plays out to entirety. Oldman's performance in The Dark Knight is spot on.
The saddest part of the cast is the late Heath Ledger; we all know that Ledger passed way earlier this year. His input into this film is staggering. His take on The Joker is what the cinema just hasn't seen for years and I think that it is this film that Ledger will be remembered for as he effectively grounds the character and totally rebuilds him into a totally different type of villain that we haven't seen before in this genre of film. His Joker has all the trademarks of the comic character in appearance such as the green hair and build, but what Ledger has done is to take his attitude towards life and increase it by 200% so that the character in the film has ...
Advantages: Gripping storyline, intense atmosphere, amazing language. Disadvantages: Fast paced
* DARK LOVER - J.R Ward *- Spoilers included!!
BOOK ONE - Dark Lover is the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. There are 6 books in total with all books following the same vampire family. These are romantic vampire novels. Each book is based on one of The Brotherhood Brothers. Even though each includes them all they are directed at one in particular and the major events that effects them.
I had never heard of these books or the author before when I was given the first book. My mum actually won the first two books on a halloween raffle at our local pub but shes not really into that sort of thing and I love vampire stories she gave them to me. After the first two books I was hooked and I brought the other 4 because it was so gripping and addicitve to know what happens in the next book.
* J.R Ward *
J ...
![Gatecrasher's Club Anthems 1993-2009 [Digipak] - Various Artists](http://imagesb.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/small/861/prod_small-7337861.jpg)
![Ministry Of Sound Anthems (1991-2008) [Digipak] - Various Artists](http://imagesa.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/small/406/prod_small-6791406.jpg)
