tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post115263284664768266..comments2023-10-08T08:37:34.499-07:00Comments on All Intensive Purposes: An advertisement for Alan Furst.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-1152678369961356722006-07-11T21:26:00.000-07:002006-07-11T21:26:00.000-07:00Truthfully, I've liked all of them, so perhaps I'm...Truthfully, I've liked all of them, so perhaps I'm not a good guide. I read them in the sequence he wrote them, and I think he hit his stride with the third -- in the first, you could sort of see him feeling his way around the genre and the possibilities, and in the second, the plot was a little too ornate. With the third, I think he decided that his strengths were not in constructing elaborate, fantastical plots, and he wisely stopped trying to outdo himself.<BR/><BR/>I haven't read the one that's just out in hardback. I <A HREF="http://allintensivepurposes.blogspot.com/2005/02/what-im-reading.html" REL="nofollow">wasn't crazy</A> about <I>Blood of Victory</I>, perhaps because he didn't find enough in Istanbul to work with. I <A HREF="http://allintensivepurposes.blogspot.com/2005/06/dark-voyage-review.html" REL="nofollow">liked</A> <I>Dark Voyage</I>, which I believe was the last before the one that's just out. <BR/><BR/>That leaves a bunch in the middle, but I'm not sure which box they're in and I'm too tired to figure it all out on the web just now (time for bed).<BR/><BR/>This comment has some links. I've never used a RSS reader, and was just wondering yesterday whether I should get around to figuring the technology out. Can you sell me on it?t.s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-1152675821259589222006-07-11T20:43:00.000-07:002006-07-11T20:43:00.000-07:00I have only read Night Soldiers, which I liked, bu...I have only read Night Soldiers, which I liked, but did not love. (Come to think of it, I think you first recommended Furst to me.) What others of his would you recommend?<BR/><BR/>By the way, the links in your posts do not show up in my RSS reader -- they just show up as regular text. Don't know why.Bailey Quartershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07240534141251889733noreply@blogger.com