I remembering reading this back in the '70s when I got into some of the action/adventure books as a teen and how this one impressed me but I also remember being confused by it. I decided to re-read this one and see if it had the draw it had from teenage years or if age had clarified it. I can rep...
When I picked up this book three years ago, I promised myself that I would never read it. Now, why would I do a crazy thing like that?Because I wanted to be able to keep it with a clean conscience. I’d never heard of the book before and had no clue what it was about. But its beautiful blue cover ...
After a successful mission of Navarone, both Mallory and Miller, who were the main characters of the book , go to Island of Kheros to pick up Andrea , an another important , hulk-like character of the book, who was there to get married with Maria. But it didn’t lasted long and form there their Jo...
"Νύχτα χωρίς τέλος", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ.Το καλοκαίρι του 2012 διάβασα για τελευταία φορά βιβλίο του Άλιστερ Μακλίν και η αλήθεια είναι ότι μου έλειψαν η αίσθηση και η ατμόσφαιρα των βιβλίων του. Φέτος όμως λέω να επανορθώσω και να διαβάσω δυο-τρία βιβλία του ακόμα μέχρι το τέλος της χρονιάς. Ένα μικρ...
There are parts of this book that just refuse to fade away; if not for anyone else, then for me alone. I like spies who are cold and calculating like Michael Reynolds (although his abilities in the story have been eclipsed by the incomparable Count) but have a tinge of humanity that peeks out of ...
I've been a fan of the 'adventure' genre since I was a kid with not a little influence from my father's love of C.S. Forrester, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alister MacLean. It has only been in the last few year that I have have actually started reading MacLean and I finally dug up the Golden Gate. B...
I’ve a liking for history and I possess a particular interest in gathering information about the two world wars. When I wanted to read works of fiction on the world wars, I was immediately redirected to Alistair MacLean. I picked South by Java Head since my knowledge on the Pacific War isn't all ...
Well...Right now I'm in the process of re-reading my small collection of MacLean's books. Last time I read them was probably 10 years ago... They are, unfortunately, badly translated (and I want to get my hands on originals), which I see now and which is kind of distracting. But it's not that bad...
A fairly diverting thriller for fans of auto racing. The story begins with world-famous Formula 1 driver Johnny Harlow being involved in a fiery, horrific crash that claims the life of a fellow driver and cripples the daughter of his team's owner when she is hit by flying debris. Rumours then sta...
There's something inherently comfortable about re-reading Alistair MacLean's novels. The action and dialogue is corny & chauvinistic and incredibly convenient. But it's fun and sometimes you just need a comfy book to read that doesn't challenge and which happily suspends all reality for a day or ...
A movie production company heads off to Bear Island, a remote island in the Arctic off the north coast of Norway. Mystery, suspense, murder and mayhem ensue, almost as soon as the boat has left Britain. No one on board the ship to Bear Island is quite what he or she seems to be...and things only ...
Reviewing books is a bit like a Rorschach Test- you tease out things that you want to see, and ignore others that don't seem terribly important to you. No two people ever approach a book in quite the same way- those familiar twins, Context and Subjectivity, shape every review you make.Being fully...
В юности зачитывался книгами Алистера Маклина.Попалась под руку аудиоверсия этой книги, в переводе на русском, решил вспомнить детство.Однако бросил, прослушав примерно 80%.Произведения Алистера Маклина, хотя и являются художественными, имеют ценность как исторические, когда речь не про факты а п...
I remember reading a bunch of MacLean's books while I was a teen and enjoying them immensely. This was during his most popular period when some of his books were made into big budget films - "Where Eagles Dare," "Ice Station Zebra," etc. So when I came across some sale paperbacks of his books I...
Major Peter Peterson is no second-rate spy. He’s top of the line – the fact that he’s still alive is his proof. So, when Colonel Lunz asks him to deliver a coded message and twins, Sarina and Michael, to Yugoslavia, Peterson knows that no petty operation is underfoot. He and his partners, Alex an...
"Το ποτάμι του θανάτου", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ.Το πρώτο βιβλίο του Άλιστερ Μακλίν που διαβάζω, και μπορώ να πω ότι έμεινα αρκετά ευχαριστημένος. Μπόλικη περιπέτεια μέσα στις ζούγκλες του Αμαζονίου, πολλές σκηνές δράσης, με επικίνδυνα ζώα, ποτάμια και καταρράκτες, πολλούς εχθρικούς ινδιάνους και άλλα παρ...
It has been well over twenty years since I last read this novel. I read it on a whim, and enjoyed the reading. It had a decent plot; the basic plot is one that the author [and many others like him] has recycled over and over and over. It moved at a decent pace, I guess. It had a lot of 'talki...
I love MacLean but this book was not well written and was boring. The book consisted of basically one main character who was over the top, "Ryder" (no first name) who was a LAPD Sergeant who is smarter than the entire FBI and CIA combined, shows no emotion or worry although his beautiful wife and...
555 - 2013#Program BUBUKalau diminta menyebutkan novel perang favorit, pasti jawabanku sama saja dengan kalau ditanya siapa penulis favorit. Banyak, euy. Kalau novel tema perang, dari rak bukuku di Goodreads sudah bisa kelihatan penulis-penulis mana saja yang jadi favoritku. Nah, untuk posting ba...
Alistair McLean wrote this book under the pseudonym of Ian Stuart, something that Stephen King did in the 1970s with his 'Richard Bachman' books like Blaze, Rage etc. I have read many authors who write spy-thrillers but none of them can match McLean's ability to describe action sequences. He can ...
