Wow I just watched the series & fell in love with Arthur too. Beautiful story. There is no friend like a dog, thank you for fighting for him & giving him a happy home. RIP ❤🎉❤
The book is incredible; when ever It gets adapted Into a film trilogy or a tv series please mr. hurwitz sir do not allow any of the material to be changed or If you do be the one to personally supervise the alteration, so that it may come off different but still exactly the same and true to the material, i already have 5 actors in mind that would be perfect to play the character: Milo Ventimiglia from the shows HEROES and THIS IS US, Grant Gustin from the show THE FLASH, Chace Crawford from the show THE BOYS, Jon bernthal from WALKING DEAD, THE ACCOUNTANT and THE PUNISHER and Aaron-Taylor Johnson from the KICK-ASS movies. 💯🔥😁😉👍🏻
Missing Pieces By Tim Weaver Review 2 out of 10. I’ve listened to about halfway and I’m gripped. so, why have I only given it 2 out of 10? Read on and you’ll understand. It begins as a well written suspenseful thriller, a gripping present tense story of Rebeka, a medical doctor and mother, trapped on a small island in the Atlantic off the North American coast in winter and her gritty struggle for survival. It’s also a murder mystery, artfully interwoven with her reflections on the backstory, which slowly provides the reader with the context of her physical circumstances, how she ended up trapped on the island afraid for her life, while also contextualising her psychology. We’re drip-fed information and simultaneously told a ripping yarn. So far this is great stuff. So far, there have been a few few sections written from the perspective of a New York missing persons police investigator who feels, as he approaches imminent retirement, that he can’t let go of a particularly mysterious case. But, as yet, there’s no apparent link between this case and the circumstances of the main protagonist. We just sense that there must be a connection… The main character is believable and she is the only fleshed out character in the first section of the book. Although other characters who are important in her life are well described in her thoughts, the focus is entirely upon her in the first half. This exclusive focus on her thoughts and actions places us firmly in the intense headspace of a lonely woman’s struggle for survival. Rebecca is both believable and empathetic. My only grouch at this point is that a few of her actions are surprising. She is surviving on her wits and demonstrates some hard headedness. However when she finds a speedboat she succeeds in launching it before provisioning it or even checking it’s fuelled and functional and then allows her only realistic means of escape from the island to drift off overnight because she hasn’t teathered it securely. This doesn’t fit in with her other practical behaviours. There’s also the issue of changing the wheel on her vehicle, because she finds an old tyre that matches. There’s no explanation of how she got this replacement tyre onto the wheel. A matching tyre just becomes synonymous with a replacement wheel in the narrative, as though the writer hasn’t realised there’s a difference, because there’s no explanation of how she got this tyre onto her wheel and inflated it. These may seem minor practicalities, but, because they are significant for her survival effort, they matter to the reader. One makes her uncharacteristically stupid, the other just makes no sense in the practical description. However, I shall read on. I hope the police investigator’s perspective is as exciting. Later on the story gets more implausible. I’ve read further now. She’s had months to plan her bid for freedom. She’s trained for the moment. She has her attacker within her power and she fails to act. A second blow of the wrench and she could neutralise the threat and pick up his weapon to defend herself against the second man. She fails to do either. She leaves the first man capable of getting back up and leaves his gun on the floor next to him. These are omissions of such total stupidity that I lost interest in her as a character at this point and stopped listening. Also she forgets that the tyre on the jeep was slashed and so leaves a big clue for her pursuers, because she replaced it with a new one. The reader anticipates this and it makes little sense that a smart character fails to do the same. I think most of her stupid mistakes are simply clumsy contrivances by the author to ratchet up the jeopardy. But in the process we loose sympathy for the character of Rebeka. At this point I wanted the author to just put her out of her misery and have the villain shoot her. As, with four whole hours left of the recording, he wasn’t about to do this, I had to do it for him and free myself from this miserable experience and do something more rewarding. Of course, macho heroes like Jack Reacher are equally implausible. But they at least have the advantage of being the hero we all wish we could be. So although he achieves absurdities, we at least get the feeling that he’ll give it his best when it matters. But the happy medium for me has been the Rory Clements books, and his hero Tom Wilde. These contain a sufficient amount of realism in character and plot, have the interest of being of a 1930s-1940s historical setting and have a main character who is sympathetic, developing, has real personal struggles, often fails, often succeeds because others save him, but in the end he’s not an idiot. It’s really hard to sustain interest in an idiot. So the book gets its two rating because it grabbed me from the outset and I respect this. And the mystery itself is intriguing, if implausible. But that’s it. The failure of the author to engage intelligently with the practical issues that challenge the survival of our protagonist is annoying. The failure of the character to do so at key moments is not only deeply frustrating but erodes our tolerance for her as a character. And without our investment in Rebekah’s character, there’s nothing to make us want to read on to find the answer to the mystery.
Genius writer. What struck me most when I first started reading these books, was how low on the scale you can talk about our ordinary thoughts, that you won’t see people touch on, because they are afraid that only they could be thinking those kind of things.
I've read this book 6 times, and every time I read it, it was better than the last! The only book I've read more than this one is The Walking Drum, by Louis L'Amour, which I've read 16 times, and is my all-time favorite book. I keep hoping for a sequel to the Harry August book, but I'd settle for a movie. 😎
I’m a 6th grader and I found it in my library and the girl who sits by me said it was good so I started to read it and I was on page 97 today and now I’m on page 257 like this book is amazing good 100% recommend ps they should make a movie I would watch it 100%
What an absolutely useless video. The most complicated part is given no explanation and not even a close up. Save yourself some time and skip this one.
I have this book and tried two recipies. I am not a professional chef so I accept if most meals take sligthly longer than 15 minutes, but 1.5 hours in the kitchen feels a bit out of sync with the title (which is how long it took me to cook Golden chicken, brased greens & potato gratin). I reckon professionals would find it a chellenge to make it in 15 minutes (ofc following the recipe, no shortcuts). The other one was Chicken Pasta Ragu this took me 1 hour. Granted I did not have all the equipment for it but still I think would have been 45 minutes. My challange to Jamie and WHSmith is to do each of the dishes a video and try to do it in 15 minutes and show it to trading standards.
i love dogs and i want to thankyou for adopting arthur and give him a loving and happy family, i hope every stray dogs could find a loving owner and forever home
I bought the Audible version of this first, and have been listening ever since. 'The Blackhouse ' introduces us to the series of stories known as the Hebridean Trilogy, and we are introduced to a wide range of interesting characters, who's lives inter-connect several times. I prefer to hear the stories in the background, as I do something else as well - but I lose nothing in the process. Also, I never get tired of hearing them , and as a result, I have become further interested in the locations; and would love to visit them myself sometime. The other parts of the trilogy, are the Lewis man and The Chessmen. The lead characters also appear in other stories based around Lewis. [The Coffin Road]. I also highly recommend Peter May's other Hebridean classic- 'Ill Keep You Safe'. I defy anyone not to like these stories, chracters, and of course- the author who put them all together - Peter May. Jack.
سباعية روايات "مذكرات ال كليفتون" من افضل القصص اللي قرأتها فحياتي ولو اقتبست لمسلسل تلفزيوني هينافس افضل المسلسلات الدرامية ، السباعية مترجمة كاملة للعربية لو حد عايز يشتريها
Idk how people can connect to books and cry like bro even reading my favourite book series I’ve never cried even when some of the best characters died and yes this includes animals.
Loved POMPEII, which I had visited 60 years ago; I still remember viewing the plaster "skeletons" and wondered if the story of the blind boy and his dog -- supposedly found with a raisin cake in his mouth to bring to him -- was true.
