Category Archives: Filmed adaptations

REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes (film, 2009)

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

Directed by: Guy Ritchie I really like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes – more famous than his creator – and wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to watch Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film version which takes … Continue reading →

Posted in Filmed adaptations, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

True Blood Omnibus – Charlaine Harris

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

(Gollancz e-book 2009) I must be one of the few people in Britain not to have a television, and as a result I’ve never seen ‘True Blood’, the television version of Charlaine Harris’s ‘Southern Vampire’ novel series narrated by Sookie … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 New Reads, Fantasy, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Read on my Kindle, Reviews, Romance | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

(Project Gutenberg e-book, originally published 1868) Regarded by some as the first English detective novel, this exciting and interesting novel is told from a variety of different viewpoints. The plot is easily summarised. On the death of her uncle, Colonel … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Re-read, Read on my Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Sex and the City – Candace Bushnell

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

(originally published 1997) I read this while at my parents’ house and so don’t have a copy to refresh my memory. This is a collection of Bushnell’s newspaper columns, originally written in the New York Observer from 1994, and detailed … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 New Reads, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Journalism, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Novels by Alistair MacLean – part 2

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

The first part of my mini-review of MacLean’s thrillers is here, while part two follows below. Night Without End (1959) was MacLean’s fifth novel. It’s told in the first-person by Dr Mason, who with two companions – an Inuit called … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 New Reads, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Historical fiction, Read on my Kindle, Reviews, Thriller | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Ian Fleming

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

(Penguin 2008, originally published 1963) Like many of Fleming’s novels featuring James Bond, the book is good deal more reflective and less gung-ho than the filmed versions – though the film of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a good … Continue reading →

Posted in 2009 New Reads, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Re-read, Reviews, Thriller | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Percy Jackson books – Rick Riordan

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

(Puffin e-books 2005-2009) Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief / Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters / Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse / Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth / Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 New Reads, Fantasy, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Read on my Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

(HarperCollins e-book 2004, based on 50th Anniversary edition) I first read The Lord of the Rings aged nine or ten and have, since then, re-read it many times. There are many pleasures to be had in re-reading this book, though … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Read on my Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Cabal – Michael Dibdin

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

(Faber e-book, originally published 1990) This, the third of Dibdin’s crime novels featuring Italian policeman Aurelio Zen, is set primarily in Rome. Zen’s new relationship with Tania Biacis, tentatively begun in Vendetta is here fully-fledged, though warning cracks in their … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 New Reads, Crime fiction, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Read on my Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Aurelio Zen – from book to screen

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

For some reason I never read the first three of Michael Dibdin’s detective novels set in Italy (Ratking, Vendetta and Cabal) until I watched the first episodes of the BBC’s new series featuring the Venetian cop and starring Rufus Sewell … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 New Reads, Crime fiction, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Read on my Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments