12 Jun 14
Originally posted by divegeester"Shibumi: A Novel Paperback Trevanian (Author) Paperback, 480 pages.
I'm off for a couple of weeks from Sunday (going to watch the World Cup with the Spaniards). Any recs on good reads? I like SiFi, Clarkson's musings and enjoyed Angels and Demons a few years ago.
Published May 10th 2005 by Broadway Books (first published 1979)
"Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished—and well-paid—assassin. Hel is a genius, a mystic, and a master of language and culture, and his secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection known only as shibumi.
Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his exquisite mistress, Hel is unwillingly drawn back into the life he’d tried to leave behind when a beautiful young stranger arrives at his door, seeking help and refuge. It soon becomes clear that Hel is being tracked by his most sinister enemy—a supermonolith of international espionage known only as the Mother Company. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other . . . shibumi."
http://www.amazon.com/Shibumi-A-Novel-Trevanian/dp/1400098033
Note: dive, enjoyed the plot and characters and intrigue so much that I read it twice in the 1980's. Rec'd!
12 Jun 14
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyGlad to hear you're wrecked—everyone needs to let their hair down once in a while.
[b]"Shibumi: A Novel Paperback Trevanian (Author) Paperback, 480 pages.
Published May 10th 2005 by Broadway Books (first published 1979)
"Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese ...[text shortened]... enjoyed the plot and characters and intrigue so much that I read it twice in the 1980's. Rec'd![/b]
13 Jun 14
Originally posted by robbie carrobieYou are SO insipidly stupid.
No but i have issues with people who are humorless and cannot mind their own business. Why you feel the necessity to cast your disparaging shadow upon some poor ragged clown with your gelid tentacles intent on strangling the humanity out of him i cannot say, but i merrily skip upon my way gleeful in the knowledge that even such a great darkness cannot overcome even a flickering light. 😵
13 Jun 14
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyNice, an Asian James Bond?
[b]"Shibumi: A Novel Paperback Trevanian (Author) Paperback, 480 pages.
Published May 10th 2005 by Broadway Books (first published 1979)
"Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese ...[text shortened]... enjoyed the plot and characters and intrigue so much that I read it twice in the 1980's. Rec'd![/b]
Is this the same Trevanian who wrote "The Eiger Sanction"?
13 Jun 14
Originally posted by robbie carrobie"Oh, he's just like any other stupid man, only more so."
Its retribution for what they did to the Barron, they treated him with disrespect, a fellow artist and poet just like you and I! just a ragged clown chasing shadows, until he was gunned down! Russ held the gun to his head, subscribe or be banned! but the Barron would not conform to his evil mind ray and vigorously resisting reincarnated himself in a ...[text shortened]... n until ruthlessly smoked out by super girl and the cowboy! I hold them personally responsible!
13 Jun 14
Originally posted by SuzianneThe Eiger Sanction: A Novel Paperback Trevanian (Author)
Nice, an Asian James Bond?
Is this the same Trevanian who wrote "The Eiger Sanction"?
"Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger.
In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, the author traces Hemlock’s spine-tingling adventures, introducing a cast of intriguing characters—villains, traitors, beautiful women—into the highly charged atmosphere of danger. The accumulating threads of suspicion, accusation, and evidence gradually knit themselves into a bizarre and death-defying climax in this exciting, entertaining novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last absorbing page." http://www.amazon.com/The-Eiger-Sanction-A-Novel/dp/1400098025
Yes, Suzi. The novel was also made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood.
13 Jun 14
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI read all of Ian Fleming's original Bond series, along with several of Alistair Maclean's novels. I also read The Eiger Sanction (and yes, the book is better than the movie) and if this Shibumi is anything like that was, then this would be a good recommendation.
[b]The Eiger Sanction: A Novel Paperback Trevanian (Author)
"Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment tha ...[text shortened]... -Novel/dp/1400098025
Yes, Suzi. The novel was also made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood.[/b]