Stephen W Osborne

Paris, The Doctor, and Guys With Squid Heads

Revisado: 03-10-18

One expects padding in a book such as this, but I was a little worried at the beginning. There was a lot of padding, and I wondered if Goss would ever get to the story! When he does, though, things start to fly. Goss stays true to the original Douglas Adams script for the most part, and it's entertaining stuff. Added bits I liked: more detail about how Scarlioni communicates with his past selves, and a drunk Romana. Kudos to Lalla Ward for a masterful performance.

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Classic Wodehouse

Revisado: 03-07-18

I read this book many years ago, and I'm sure I laughed a lot. I'm also sure I laughed even more listening to Jonathan Cecil's performance, as he brings out every snippet of humor. Wodehouse, it seems, was made to be read aloud, and Cecil is the perfect reader of these tales.

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One of the best

Revisado: 02-22-18

McGee is in Chicago and the area for this one, involving missing money and a very broken family. Some gruesome torture is included (mostly off page) so not for the feint of heart.

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Not For Me

Revisado: 02-16-18

Ron Ripley doesn't know how to be subtle. Rather than try for creepy or scary, he throws in a whole platoon of ghosts, and throws them at you nearly from the start. You never get to know the main characters, nor care for them. I was rooting for the evil little boy ghost after a while. The writing was dodgy, with a lot of He Said, She Said, He said, She said. At one point I laughed out loud, which I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do in a horror novel. It was just that silly.

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No court today for Mason

Revisado: 02-14-18

An unusual Gardner, as this one doesn't end in a trial. Also, it's not as convoluted as a lot of his are. Cendese is growing on me, but his female voices are still ludicrous.

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A Very Un-Holmsian Holmes

Revisado: 02-08-18

This was closer to the TV show SHERLOCK rather than anything from the pen of Doyle. The case itself was interesting, and exciting in places, but Holmes acted so unlike the Great Detective that I was immensely disappointed. There was a huge argument between Holmes and Watson which didn't sit well with me, and there seemed no resolution to it...no mention of it again, as if it never happened!

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Good, not great Stout

Revisado: 02-07-18

You can't go wrong with Michael Pritchard narrating the Wolfe tales. I recommend listening to this in one sitting, or several close together, as there are a lot of characters to keep track of, and you don't want to think "Now, who is this person again?" The plot is nothing special, although Wolfe does forgo both beer and meat until he solves the puzzle, which makes for some fun scenes.

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It was good...not great

Revisado: 01-31-18

SPOILER ALERT:I've been having a hard time finding a good ghost story. Many of them are, frankly, ridiculous. This one at least was pretty well written and read. At least I wasn't screaming at the characters not to be so stupid. They did go from "Oh my goodness, we're cursed!" to "Oh we just scared ourselves into thinking something supernatural happened" pretty fast. My main trouble with the book is that you know how it's going to end from the very beginning. There was no suspense, because I knew as it unfolded where Eric was going to end up.

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Now I can't get Shirley Bassey out of my head!

Revisado: 01-20-18

The movies and the books are two totally different, separate things. Usually, only the title and the character names transfer, and sometimes the locale. This one wasn't as good as Moonraker (lousy movie, great book) but still had a lot going for it. Every now and then, though, you read a line of Fleming's and you think, "Oh my God! He actually WROTE that???" In this one, it was a sentence about homosexuals making particularly nasty killers.

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Oh, dear.

Revisado: 01-16-18

This one gives you a lot of ghosts. There are more ghosts than living characters in the book. They're not very scary, though, or interesting. Nor are the main characters. We have a huge house that adds rooms, moves rooms, and even has whole floors that can't be seen from the outside. And why does the family stay in the house, despite several murderous attempts on their lives? Even worse, why do the parents leave a teenage boy alone in the house at night? The ending, the big "let's get rid of the big bad ghost" moment, happens quickly and very easily. I love a good ghost story. This just wasn't one.

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