Versluiering, van het Italiaanse schrijversechtpaar Monaldi en Sorti werd mij in de boekhandel aangeboden in het kader van Juni, Maand van het Spannende Boek 2011. Desondanks, en hoewel er op de kaft ‘literaire thriller’ staat, vond ik het niet zo heel spannend. Om met het gedeelte ‘thriller’ te beginnen: er gebeurt in het hele verhaal [...]
Category Archives: First Lines
First Lines: The Hobbit
October 25, 2011 – 23:14
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Or: how the little hobbit Bilbo Baggins of Bag End went on an adventure, became a cunning burglar and found a magical ring that got his nephew in all kinds of trouble. No, this wasn’t the first time I read The Hobbit. It was the first time I [...]
First Lines: God No!
October 23, 2011 – 13:28
There’s two reasons picked up a copy of Penn Jillette’s God No!: 1) I really liked his This I Believe piece from a couple of years ago, and 2) I read the introduction. Both are awesome pieces about atheism / being an atheist. Unfortunately, the book didn’t live up to the introduction. Jillette, a self [...]
First Lines: The Catcher in the Rye
October 15, 2011 – 12:57
Holden Caulfield. With his goddamn red hunting cap. He kills me. He really does. But I felt sorry as hell for him too. I really did. Not because he’s just a sixteen year old boy. And not because he’s some kinda phony, complaining about other people being phonies or anything. I’m not saying that. But [...]
First Lines: The Key to Creation
October 4, 2011 – 00:01
In The Key to Creation, Book Three of Kevin J. Anderson’s Terra Incognita trilogy, the inevitable is about to happen. Two decades of religious hatred from two opposing continents and religions is about to explode into the violent orgy of violence to end the mother of all religious violent orgies. Something like that. There can [...]
