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Azalik ez — Mick Herron: Slow Horses (2011, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

300 orrialde

English hizkuntza

2011ko ots. 24a(e)an Little, Brown Book Group Limited(e)n argitaratua.

ISBN:: 978-1-78033-631-2

(2 berrikuspen)

Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and it's threatened that he'll be beheaded live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. Is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda ...

11 edizio

Mattias Eriksson 📚⛵ (e)k Mick Herron(r)en Slöa Hästar liburuaren kritika egin du (Slough House, #1)

Fantastisk spionhistoria

5 izar

Slöa Hästar är en fantastisk bok om MI5:s slutstation för anställda som gjort bort sig på något sätt och som omplacerats så att de kan göra minimal skada. Tanken är att de ska sitta där och göra tråkiga uppgifter tills de slutar, men på något sätt dras de ändå in i en händelsekedja som gör att det hamnar i händelsernas centrum. Otroligt bra berättad, med ett avslappnat tempo. Sedan älskar jag kontors-spion historier likt filmen Spy Game, och det känns som detta är lite i samma genre. Kan helt klart rekommendera denna bok som sommarläsning.

ridel@bookwyrm.social (e)k Mick Herron(r)en Slow Horses liburuaren kritika egin du (Slough House, #1)

The TV Show is Better because of Gary Oldman

3 izar

I'm embarassed to say that I prefer the TV adaptation of Slow Horses, and don't think viewers will get anything out of reading the original novel. Typically I expect that the novel is deeper, smarter, and more complex than a TV series. Unfortunately for us readers, the adaptation is very faithful to the source material while suffering the sin of not having Gary Oldman.

The TV series provides many more scenes of Jackson Lamb tearing it up, delivering hilarious verbal abuse that is part of the charm of Slow Horses. The showrunners gave Gary Oldman more material and as a result, the novel feels like it's holding out on us. There's also a sense of effortless gravitas in an actor of his skill, and so while the novel tries to surprise you with Jackson Lamb's hidden talent, viewers instinctively know that underneath the dirty jacket is a man …

I'm embarassed to say that I prefer the TV adaptation of Slow Horses, and don't think viewers will get anything out of reading the original novel. Typically I expect that the novel is deeper, smarter, and more complex than a TV series. Unfortunately for us readers, the adaptation is very faithful to the source material while suffering the sin of not having Gary Oldman.

The TV series provides many more scenes of Jackson Lamb tearing it up, delivering hilarious verbal abuse that is part of the charm of Slow Horses. The showrunners gave Gary Oldman more material and as a result, the novel feels like it's holding out on us. There's also a sense of effortless gravitas in an actor of his skill, and so while the novel tries to surprise you with Jackson Lamb's hidden talent, viewers instinctively know that underneath the dirty jacket is a man to be reckoned with.

On the other hand, the novel is a bit more intellectually complex. It's shorter and more focused. The adaptation also suffers from watering down its themes with Hollywood-action and requirements to give all major actors/actresses a certain amount of screen time. These are all qualities that do credit to the original source material. Sadly, the downside is to not see Gary Oldman. And that's just not worth it.

Recommended with reservations -- seriously, just go watch the TV series.

Gaiak

Fiction, suspense
Great britain, fiction