Advantages: Sharp, snappy and extremely funny Disadvantages: Blood, gore and other bits (all in Scottish)
"Quite Ugly OneMorning" was Christopher Brookmyre's first book and consequently this is the first time we get to meet maverick journalist Jack Parlabane. Not only has Jack just returned to his native Scotland after a very narrow escape from work in America he has moved into a flat where the owner of the flat below, Dr Jeremy Ponsonby has just been discovered murdered in a very bloody and brutal fashion.
After another narrow escape when the police first suspect that Jack may actually be the murderer he meets up with the victim's former wife, a young aesthetician named Sarah Slaughter. Whilst Sarah isn't exactly pining for her murdered ex-husband she does suspect that something is not quite right with the burglary-gone-wrong scenario that the police seem to suspect has caused Jeremy's death. Likewise Jack, ever one to sniff out ...
Advantages: Very well acted, absorbing, intense, shocking in parts Disadvantages: A little mawkish at the end
of the storyline away, but I'll speak a little about my own feelings on The Prince Of Tides.
I watched this film on the recommendation of a friend, and I was a little apprehensive because my friend's and my own tastes in films, music etc. doesn't always coincide, but when she told me this was about delving into the history of a deeply dysfunctional family, I decided to give it a watch - at the time I was going through some counselling myself, dealing with a few of my own childhood issues, and I thought it may be something I could perhaps identify with.
I settled alone one evening to watch The Prince Of Tides, and as the film rolled on and got into the storyline, my eyes were becoming more firmly glued to the screen. I found one or two parts of it touched a little too close for comfort on a couple of my own childhood experiences, but that was ...
Advantages: Trademark unique narration, "Accurate Fiction" Disadvantages: A little erratic pacing, Not the author's best
After nullifying the latest Persian threat and enjoying a few golden decades of supremacy, Greece did what Greece does: broke out in a ruthless civil war. Athens battled Sparta for the rule of Ancient Greece and the 27-year struggle's physical and spiritual toll was irreparable.
As the momentum of the conflict continually veered from one side to the other, one man's life reflected these, ever-changing, tides of war. Relentless on the battlefield and cunning in politics, Alcibiades' combination of qualities made him that era's most instrumental individual. Through the eyes of two almost ordinary men, Steven Pressfield shows us how close genius is to insanity and true heroism to despiteful treason, as we see Alcibiades coldly changing sides throughout the Peloponnesian War.
***The Author***
Although there fortunately are many ...
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