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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45234.The_Gun_Seller?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Gun Seller" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170275796m/45234.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45234.The_Gun_Seller?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Gun Seller</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25372.Hugh_Laurie">Hugh Laurie</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9703573?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 2 of 5 stars This book took me FOREVER to read. I had to give it second & third tries, after I initially picked it up. I was so excited to read it, but it turned out to be hard going. His humor is not smoothly incorporated into the narrative, nor are the unnecessarily graphic fight descriptions. I love him on House, and I hear he was funny on his other shows. This book improved as I went further on. It just was not anywhere near as good as I thought it would be. I won't reread the book--thank God I didn't buy it. 
 
 then again, the book did yield one of my new favorite quotes:
 "Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first. 
 Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference.
 So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything."
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Crystal's review
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bookshelves: various-mystery-action-adventure
recommended for: diehard fans of goofy British humor and spy spoofs
status: Read in January, 2008

This book took me FOREVER to read. I had to give it second & third tries, after I initially picked it up. I was so excited to read it, but it turned out to be hard going. His humor is not smoothly incorporated into the narrative, nor are the unnecessarily graphic fight descriptions. I love him on House, and I hear he was funny on his other shows. This book improved as I went further on. It just was not anywhere near as good as I thought it would be. I won't reread the book--thank God I didn't buy it.

then again, the book did yield one of my new favorite quotes:
"Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.
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