Status Updates From Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. S...

Communist Laos. 1970's. Breakfast at the Hotel Pakse.

"The cook appeared and plonked down two plates and
a basket of gray bread in front of the guests. The eggs
seemed to float like flat tropical fish in pools of grease.

'Coffee's coming,' the cook said. To Civilai's ears, it
sounded like a threat. "

Picking up a Colin Cotterill-anything is like meeting up
with a best friend after a long absence: happily anticipated,
and never disappointed. Just ordered the next 4 books
in the Dr. Siri series through Amazon....happily anticipated.

I'd forgotten how outrageously funny books by Colin Cotterill can get.

listening to this as an audiobook and loving it!

Z celej doterajšej série je táto asi naobyčajnejšia. Not bad, ale tak nejako...bez osobnosti.

So much fun

"The woman's skin was the color of ash; her eyes no more than hyphens. . . .She had a voice like someone with long fingernails sliding off a tin roof."

"He was a man used to getting his way", and somehow he'd been talked out of his own harebrained scheme and into someone else's.

"Dr. Siri, I'm just a soldier in a new uniform. Soldiering and policing are interchangeable as far as my bosses are concerned." Harumph.

The transvestism fortune teller is an interesting character. I wonder how accurate these characters are in terms of the realities of Laos in the 70s?

Dr. Siri is back ant the mystery begins with the death of a blind old man. I wonder what was in the envelope he picked up at the post office. His body is in the morgue, but tiger has been no mention of the envelope.

Beim Lesen von Cotterill habe ich einfach jedes Mal ein Dauergrinsen im Gesicht :D

Thoroughly recommend the new, improved proletariat Bruce Lee.

BTW, yet again GoodReads fails at maths. 258 pages in my edition.

Needed a book set somewhere hot("Damn hot!"), since I was completely discombobulated by the last book being set in a Winter-y Venice while I was reading it in a very Summer-y New Zealand. Also long overdue for another Dr Siri mystery. Decision on which one to read made by blurb featuring the words "Bruce Lee", "dolphin", and "transvestite fortune-teller". :)

This is an astonishingly brilliant series, I am so impressed with Colin Cotterill's writing (and I'm campaigning for my local library to buy more of his books). The detective/coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun is brilliant and gives us really interesting insights into the chaos Laos experienced in the 1970s after communists took over from the Royalists and/or French colonialists.

Less supernatural than previous ones.

i'm not even 40 pages in to this book and it is already a million times better than "new moon".