SactownConnection said:
I've always wanted to read that series... Alfred Hitchcock made The Thirty-Nine Steps into a bad-ass movie (well, "badass" for the 1930's, but still...) and he was always writing up treatments of Greenmantle (but it never went into production)...
Yeah, I can never find the time either. I watch too many movies, listen to too much music, and play a bit of video/PC games, so that doesn't leave me time to exercise or read. My priorities are all f*cked up.
Yeah I've seen 3 versions of the 39 steps and the black and white one by Alfred Hitchcock is a bad ass movie!! The best by a long way
Although there is no love interest in the book.
I can let that go because its such an entertaining and enoyable adaptation.
Know what you mean... I blame work tho... there it is 5 days a week eating up my precious precious time.
you smoke dodo said: What's the Richard Hannay series all about? I've heard of the 39 steps, but none of the others. I'm jealous as hell you're near the new forest. Lucky basted. You got red squirrels down there?
Its about a soldier who has a knack for using his instincts, brains, wit etc etc. The stories usually involve a group that manipulates things but on a grand grand scale. Like you'd have the German Army and they would be like spies above everyone else. Its hard to explain briefly.
Things like East v West come in to it.
These people exsist but dont exsist. It revolves around things that happened like the 1st world war.
I've given this a bad explanation haha.
Hannay gets promoted after many good deeds and takes charge of Soliders trying to hold off the Germans in France.
He goes to a lot of different locations in the different books, Scotland, England, Africa, Germany, Turkey. So it always stays interesting.
One of my favourite parts is when Hannay is on the run from the Germans during the war, being persued through the Black Forest and he suffers a bout of Malaria.
Really descriptive writing (unlike mine haha) really takes you places.
Sometimes its quite depressing when you put one of the books down and you're sat at your desk at work
I recommend reading at least the 39 steps.
Not many red squrriels I've seen no more than 10 in my life time.
The New Forest is a really nice place. Where I live tho you just gotta walk like 5 minutes away from your house and you can be away from people and buildings and traffic etc.