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Bezig met laden... Pirate King (2011)door Laurie R. King
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As much as I'd like to say this was another great Mary Russell book from Laurie King, I cannot. In fact I was surprised how slow moving it is and that the usual twists and turns in any Russell/Holmes story are completely missing. Having read four others she'd written this was a real disappointment though I'll still continue to work my way through all the Mary Russell books. In England's budding silent-film industry, megalomaniac Randolph Fflytte is king. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities. At Lisbon rehearsals for "Pirate King", based on Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance", thirteen blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses meet the real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, troubles escalate. Inspector Lestrad asks Mary Russell to take a job as an assistant to the director with a musical theater company to discover what happened to the previous assistant. The company is about to film a movie about a company filming The Pirates of Penzance been no overrun by actual pirates. I don’t think this book would appeal to people who aren’t familiar with Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, since it’s got Gilbert & Sullivan plot twists and if you don’t know those you’ll get lost. I forgot about the actual crime Mary was working on because I got so wrapped up in the twists — how did Sherlock get in the boat— but I’ll keep reading them. The extra story does remind us that Mary was orphaned as a child and her marriage to Sherlock Holmes is a means of allowing her access to the money she inherited. These stories are set in the beginning of the 20th Century and unmarried women could not hold their own bank accounts. Mary may be managing her own money, but she's doing it under the auspices of Sherlock Holmes. This might make the age difference between Sherlock and Mary slightly more palatable to modern readers; at the time the marriage probably wouldn't have been worth commenting on. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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New York TimesPirate King is a Laurie King treasure chestâ??thrilling, intelligent, romantic, a swiftly unreeling masterpiece of suspen Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Well, maybe I'm older and more cynical (I read Swedish authors, after all) but this book didn't grab me at all, with it's lengthy and needlessly complex setup. I feel certain that, had I stuck it out, I'd find a nugget of goodness there - King is a fluid writer and often funny and I enjoy that. But after many many pages, I had to toss it into the "return to library" pile.
Perhaps it would have been better to read the series again from the beginning, but I didn't enjoy them that much. I find Holmes a bit annoying at the best of times ("Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do" and all that) and really hate deus ex machina mysteries where the magical detective whips the secret out from under his cloak (it always seems to be a him) at the end.
Still, for fans of Holmes, it's interesting to see him as a non-drug-addicted, married man. For me, something doesn't fit. ( )