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A'Silk King' scenario
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/03/2012
» While zombies never existed, in Haiti or anywhere else, vampires have, if not quite as Bram Stoker and Anne Rice described them. They do kill and suck blood from their victims, and some even sleep in caskets. But the sun doesn't bother them, they don't turn into bats and a wooden stake through the heart isn't necessary to kill them.
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A good, not great read
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/03/2012
» One of the differences between a book in hardback and in paperback is that the paperback contains snippets from the favourable reviews of the hardbacks published to a year earlier. This puts the critics of the paperbacks who didn't read the book in hardbacks in an unenviable position, at least those who found the praise exaggerated.
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In days of yore
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/04/2012
» What characterised ancient Rome's conquests was that they had to keep conquering the same lands, which kept rebelling. As overlords they were arrogant and brutal, venal and intolerant. Ruling with an iron hand inside an iron fist, the captive populace rose while realising that the struggle was hopeless.
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Universal cheating
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/05/2012
» Many of us profess to know it all, but do we? Not all of us, surely. And though there are among us who know a good deal, knowing it all is a bit much. Not even Aristotle or Da Vinci, Newton or Einstein were that brilliant.
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The one percent
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/09/2012
» Having written for decades a column about the vibrant night life in the Realm, I felt that I knew the subject better than anyone else and said so. To a large extent, this was no idle boast. My approach was non-judgemental. Others writing about it knew only a fraction as much as I did and had an axe to grind.
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A delightful sequel
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/10/2012
» Sequels are commonplace, but not necessarily by the same authors. They are penned shortly after the original becomes popular, or long afterwards. Alexander Dumas waited two decades before his follow-up to The Three Musketeers. More than one writer had been tapped to pick up where Alistair Maclean and Ian Fleming left off.
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Smoke jumpers
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/11/2012
» I'd thought that James Patterson, on his own and with co-authors, penned the most novels until I came across Nora Roberts. Under her own name and also the pseudonym JD Robb she has ground out 190 works of fiction to date without a co-author. To her credit, talent-wise she gives Patterson a run for his money.
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A winged ransom
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 24/12/2012
» This reviewer admits to not knowing the differences between Medieval times and the Middle Ages, hawks and falcons. So I use them interchangeably, my apologies to semanticists. Over the years. I've found that I'm not the only one. Take Brit Robert Lyndon, a falconer, who titled his historical novel about them Hawk Quest.
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The Black Prince
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/01/2013
» Titling a novel with the year in which it is set presumes that the reader is aware of the historical event _ 476, the fall of the Roman Empire; 1215, Magna Carta; 1588, the defeat of the Spanish Armada; 1775, the American Revolution; 1789, the French Revolution; 1814, Waterloo; 1939, Hitler's invasion of Poland; 1941, Pearl Harbour. But 1356... with how many people does it ring a bell ?
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A satisfying read
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/02/2013
» An author who can be depended on to consistently give us an interesting, enjoyable, compelling read is Yank James Patterson _ with and without a co-writer. His plots aren't taken from yesterday's headlines, rather, they are the product of a fertile imagination. Contrived, with clever twists, at times implausible, always exciting.
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