December Reading Log
The Eye of the Needle
This book is set during the years of World War 2 and takes factual events and adds a fictional twist or character to create a suspenseful heart-racing mystery novel. The main villain is a Nazi spy in England who is ruthless but seems perfectly normal in fact seems like the kind of guy you would want to meet. After several years of not being spotted the Nazi begins to suspect something, something that could lose him the war. The English anti-spy team has hacked into the communications, captured over half the agents in Britain, and found and tracked all the rest except one. Through a series of twists and turns this novel weaves an epic clash and unknown conclusions await every page.
I personally would not enter this action-packed novel for a few reasons. One someone dies all the time almost every other page, i don't want to die. Another reason is i simply don't want to be in the situations the characters are put in. Further more the events are no where near what i have experienced in real life. The book is set through out England one place i have longed to go but never had the chance to. So i can not connect this to my life either.
The character that is my favorite is a man named Tom who is described as “...had a face of leather and a huge pipe with a lid. He was shorter than she (one of the main characters), but wide, and he looked ridiculously healthy...” Tom lives on a small island to herd sheep for a rich family and is a simple man who is extremely friendly and nice. For these reasons i would enjoy being in his company. The rest of the characters are either old, lost too much to be human, or are down right killers.
In what i have read i can not catch any literary features either because i am to caught up in the historical/realistic plot or because i don't look hard enough. But in what i have read it is simply outstanding. The thing i pictured best was this high tense scene when the English spy-hunters found someone who knew who Die Nadel was and they were using him to act as a ticket collector on the train they thought he was on. Die Nadel, “assumed the worst, and prepared to deal with it” when he realized that he was being hunted. He hid between the train carriages and waited until the man came out. There he questioned him and then killed him with his signature weapon, a stiletto blade. This part was most vivid because of the way it was described and the setting was easy to imagine. The fear on Die Nadel’s face must of been one of complete horror at the thought of “they know his face.”
Unfortunately i can not compare this to any book i have read before. This is something new and something to be treasured. It all blends smoothly and is very enjoyable read. I highly recommend it.
The Eye of the Needle
This book is set during the years of World War 2 and takes factual events and adds a fictional twist or character to create a suspenseful heart-racing mystery novel. The main villain is a Nazi spy in England who is ruthless but seems perfectly normal in fact seems like the kind of guy you would want to meet. After several years of not being spotted the Nazi begins to suspect something, something that could lose him the war. The English anti-spy team has hacked into the communications, captured over half the agents in Britain, and found and tracked all the rest except one. Through a series of twists and turns this novel weaves an epic clash and unknown conclusions await every page.
I personally would not enter this action-packed novel for a few reasons. One someone dies all the time almost every other page, i don't want to die. Another reason is i simply don't want to be in the situations the characters are put in. Further more the events are no where near what i have experienced in real life. The book is set through out England one place i have longed to go but never had the chance to. So i can not connect this to my life either.
The character that is my favorite is a man named Tom who is described as “...had a face of leather and a huge pipe with a lid. He was shorter than she (one of the main characters), but wide, and he looked ridiculously healthy...” Tom lives on a small island to herd sheep for a rich family and is a simple man who is extremely friendly and nice. For these reasons i would enjoy being in his company. The rest of the characters are either old, lost too much to be human, or are down right killers.
In what i have read i can not catch any literary features either because i am to caught up in the historical/realistic plot or because i don't look hard enough. But in what i have read it is simply outstanding. The thing i pictured best was this high tense scene when the English spy-hunters found someone who knew who Die Nadel was and they were using him to act as a ticket collector on the train they thought he was on. Die Nadel, “assumed the worst, and prepared to deal with it” when he realized that he was being hunted. He hid between the train carriages and waited until the man came out. There he questioned him and then killed him with his signature weapon, a stiletto blade. This part was most vivid because of the way it was described and the setting was easy to imagine. The fear on Die Nadel’s face must of been one of complete horror at the thought of “they know his face.”
Unfortunately i can not compare this to any book i have read before. This is something new and something to be treasured. It all blends smoothly and is very enjoyable read. I highly recommend it.
