This was difficult and frustrating for me in audio form for about 60% of the book. This was not a problem with the narrator (Joe Barrett), but so many new characters ventured onto center stage and then were suddenly gone that it was hard to keep track of who was who. But by the end I grew very ...
Salter mette l'eleganza e la moda a compiacere il lettore, con un manierismo da affinamento in alta società: elitario, snob e wasp. Si tratta di un romanzo sentimentale che non affonda mai un colpo; lo stile è elevato, definito e accurato, la prosa è ben connotata, ma ordinaria. Il mondo descritt...
There is a tempting urge to begin: "This is a book about mountain-climbing, but it's not about mountain-climbing." That would help reassure some non-hobbyists (like me), but in fact, this is a book that's not "about" mountain-climbing that happens to be very about mountain-climbing.I'll try to ex...
'Cassada' is a compelling read of US Air Force fighter pilots stationedin Germany during the Cold War, 1955. Various reviews and the jacketblurb use terms such as 'spare', 'sparse', 'terse' to describe Slater'sstyle. Indeed it appears he set some standards for himself and stuck tothem with the b...
Salter's autobiography. p. x In the past I have written about gods and have sometimes done that here. It seems to be an inclination. I do not worship gods but I like to know they are there. Frailty, human though it may be, interests me less. So I have written only about certain things, the ...
Großartige Höhepunkte, schnell vergessener Durchschnitt Eine Warnung an potenzielle Leser vorweg: lasst Euch nicht von meinen drei Sternen abschrecken, sie geben meinen gefühlten Durchschnitt über alle 11 Stories wieder. Und den Storyband, in denen alle für fünf Sterne gut sind, gibt es meines Er...
THE HUNTERS is one of the more insular novels I’ve ever read., insular in that it’s almost entirely about the self-contained world of fighter pilots during the Korean War of the early l950’s. That forgotten war of 60 years ago involved the first air battles between the newly developed American F-...