Status Updates From The Ministry of Fear

p.7/260. In chapter 1. The Free Mothers

Undercooked

This is quite incredible so far.

Reading a greene thriller/‘entertainment’ is a wild ride because in the middle of a pulpy spy thriller he’ll just drop a line like ‘courage smashes a cathedral, endurance lets a city starve, pity kills… we are trapped and betrayed by our virtues.’

Anyway pre-cold war spy thrillers are awesome I want to read a hundred more.

I’m at the part in the novel I had learned about from the Bonus Features of the Criterion Collection disc of the film, where they discussed a major plot difference between the movie and the book. I’ve reached a development that was not included in the film…and it’s such a wild shift from everything that had gone before it, that I might be confused for a while. Would have been intriguing to have not been forewarned…

My favourite by this author - and I haven’t read much - is The Human Factor, Brighton Rock was great, too. I’ve seen the Fritz Lang film of Ministry of Fear, and I love it. It’s considered “minor Lang”, and I’ve seen ‘M’, and Metropolis, among others, so I get that. It’s a bit like a Hitchcock film, in terms of what he was doing with spy films, but more Film Noir. I know the book is somewhat different (Good!).

Time to cleanse the palette knife.

not as boring as before but still not my fave

boring

Are you serious, unnecessary love interest???? Wtf.

The end better be bomb.

Dick Digby, what a name.

Cake = serious business

12 pages read in 28 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

A load of books

Chapter 1. The Free Mothers

Did not finish this book.

ترجمه ی آقای پرویز داریوش از انتشارات علمی و فرهنگی متاسفانه ترجمه ی خیلی روانی نیست🥱

Put it down, couldn’t get into it.

Johns: "The scrapping of the old boundaries, the new economic ideas . . . the hugeness of the dream. It is attractive to men who are not tied – to a particular village or town they don't want to see scrapped."

To read this story from Anna's point of view might be incredible.

Coudn't get into this book. I stopped reading it.

An entertaining novel so far. I very much like novels that strongly involve me mentally and emotionally (like the two previous ones I've read; La Muerte En Venecia and Crime and Punishment) . Afterwards, I enjoy reading a 'lighter' novel, less complex, such as El Ministerio Del Miedo, which serves as a fine entertainment. Perhaps after finishing this novel I'll continue in the same mode by reading a legal thriller.

But it is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

"...her face was stiff and schooled and childish and histrionic. It was like watching a small girl play Lady Macbeth. You wanted to shield her from the knowledge that these things were really true" (202).

"...like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind--until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in" (73).

"Conventions were far more rooted than morality: he had himself found that it was easier to allow oneself to be murdered than to break up a social gathering" (71).

"Conventions were far more rooted than morality: he had himself found that it was easier to allow oneself to be murdered than to break up a social gathering" (71).

I’m liking this one a lot, a very interesting twist just revealed itself. G. Greene is a fave of mine.

I’m liking this one a lot, a very interesting twist just revealed itself. G. Green is a fave of mine.