The Gun Seller

This book is F A N T A S T I C Maybe you haven t recognized the name of the author, but this Hugh Laurie is THE Hugh Laurie who was the star on the TV series House, M.DSure, maybe some of you would say So what He is an actor but can he write Oh, yes He CAN write Pain is an event It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.If you ever watched some episode of House, M.D you can be familiarized with the personality of the character that Laurie portraited there, and you will find [...]

I wish I could give this book 6 stars I love Hugh Laurie I love his dry, sarcastic wit I love his accent I want to hump his leg for writing this book Yes I really just said that I picked up this book BECAUSE I love Hugh Laurie, but I didn t really have high expectations I thought it would be humorous, but not a book to really be taken seriously I thought it would be a little bit like a parody of the espionage genre, like Johnny English or Spy Hard, etc I was prepared for it to be silly, and a bi [...]

I would like to please find the person who in the description of this book promised an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and give them my best Grandma Lydia look If you are NOT familiar with the Grandma Lydia look , which you probably aren t since the chances of you actually having met my grandmother are slim to none, I will explain This is the look you get from a tiny 5 foot tall sweetest Eastern European grandmother that makes you stop in your tracks and beg forgiveness for anything you eve [...]

This book restored my faith in celebrity novels The last one I read by a former TV hero of mine was so disappointing but Hugh Laurie is a first rate wordsmith and an excellent storyteller I already knew he was a brilliant actor I m midway through The Night Manager, and his performance is sending shivers down my spine , a comic genius and a super blues musician, so he is way multi talented than most of us This book is an action thriller, which is not my usual fare I suspect he has a great comic [...]

Thanks to Chris for turning me on to this fun romp Every now then I d just bust out laughing it kept me up past my bed time to finish it Random, odd, meandering as it seems at times, the humor was a constant thread I found that everything really was spot on If the story occasionally took the long way around the barn, it was only so we d sneak up on something unexpected.It s at least a 3 star thriller is written so perfectly in Laurie s voice that I could hear see him the entire time, which easil [...]

Someone I greatly admire in the book world was very excited to receive The Gun Seller as a Christmas gift which I pretty much took as an ultra credible recommendation The audio was at my library and I snapped it up I didn t pay any attention to the author s named I m glad I didn t because I likely wouldn t have read it If you have never heard of this book, then don t research the author either Just read it blind I m so glad I did Obviously, after I finished this darkly hilarious piece of arms tr [...]

I bought this in hardback from Waterstones in Bromley when it first came out I have a feeling I was revising for my A levels at the time A lot of comedians were publishing novels back then Hugh s friend Stephen Fry had already done The Liar in 1991 which was great the book, that is, not the year , and before that I think it all started with Ben Elton s Stark in 1989, which I never got around to Comedian lit was a weird genre and not one, to be honest, that has produced many great writers David B [...]

The only reason I read this book You guessed it, Hugh Laurie Anything to which his name is attached is worth a looksee I m not typically a fan of spy novels, so I must admit that some of the spoofing was probably lost on me However, Laurie obviously enjoys the English language and bends and twists it to wit laced results As a narrator, Thomas Lang is sarcastic and self deprecating, but also a genuinely nice guy He s likable, someone you d like to go have a drink with just to hear his running com [...]

Fantastic Fantastically funny Fantastically savvy Fantastically clever Fantastically political Fantastically cinematic Fantastically entertaining Fantastic Hugh Laurie has only written one novel, but I hope there are to come after his near perfect debut, The Gun Seller.Laurie takes a fairly standard dirty CIA story ala Jason Bourne , tosses in some Wodehousian humour, takes the p ss out of modern politics and democracy, builds suspense with some cracking chases, gun fights and 007 style violenc [...]

The Gun Seller is a strange book, in a way The first few chapters are sort of random and whimsical, with at least one laugh out loud line on every page About a quarter of the way in though, it seems like it occurs to Laurie that he actually has some storytelling to do, and sets about doing it The book grows gradually serious from that point, until it is close to being a Robert Ludlum style spy thriller It also gets rather confusing I had a hard time figuring out the motivations of some of the c [...]

Pro lo je skoro etiri mjeseca od pro itane knjige, no osje am se isto kao i onda kada je se sjetim JES, pro itala sam je No, kako sam ju zatvorila, tako sam ju zaboravila Ono to je u knjizi dobro, je naslovnica i to to sam pametnoga doznala o talentiranom Dr House u, gospodin Hugh Laurie Tip genijalac, ali ovo mu definitivno nije trebalo Naporno, dosadno, zbrkano, nebitno Za preskakanje savr eno

Audiobook review the book started out strong, but got very tedious by the 2 3 point Imagine watching a Mr Bean marathon Funny at first, but by the sixth hour, it s driving you up the wall I think it s probably the format, and I might go back and read not listen this one someday.

Hugh Laurie is a talented guy I read this because I loved House MD and I wanted to know what he can do The book was ok but the action dragged at some points.

Really good book, very dark and funny Like if PG Wodehouse wrote political thrillers.

This book has been on my to read list for ages Adding it was as simple as, Hugh Laurie wrote a novel Sold The fact that it s a novel about a British ex military freelancer trying to prevent the assassination of the American businessman he was hired to kill well, that s just a bonus Some books keep their wit bottled up and dole it out carefully over the course of the story The Gun Seller isn t like that from the very first page, Laurie makes it clear that this is a tongue in cheek, semi absurd st [...]

Cynical, wry freelance soldier of fortune Thomas Lang is hired to kill a man, but being a nice chap, refuses the money and goes to warn the intended victim His discovery that the victim, an American industrialist, is also the man who hired him is only the beginning of a series of bizarre surprises and twists in store for Lang, as he is reluctantly involved in a plot to instigate a terrorist act so that a new attack helicopter can be tested out in actual combat He falls for the industrialist s da [...]

I had to stop reading The Gun Seller around 1am, halfway through it, and believe me, the ONLY thing stopping me from reading to the end was an unfortunate dearth of eyelids propper uppers, a la A Clockwork Orange.It is LITERALLY laugh out loud funny Adam spousal unit couldn t concentrate on his computer war game, so often did I punctuate the living room s ual silence with raucous laughter and stifled snorts.But it is ALSO one helluva spy tale He wrote it in 1996 and I can t for the life of me fi [...]

Hugh Laurie isI suppose I should begin by saying I have something of a crush on him In the beginning he was fantastic in Blackadder as the various Georges, then he was extremely fabulous opposite Stephen Fry in Jeeves and Wooster , and then, having proved himself one of the best comic actors of his generation, he came to America to star in House , and became not just one of the most versatile actors, but a sex symbol to boot It was on the strength of this reputation that I started to read The Gu [...]

Bilje ka o piscu na kraju mi je najbolji dio knjige ovjek je svestran i svaka ast Gledala sam ga kao gosta u showu Grahama Nortona, beskrajno duhovit i zanimljiv Izvrstan kao Dr House Ali ova knjiga mi je, poput naslova, bila vrlo komplicirana i na alost, ve je zaboravljena Ocjena je pozitivna ali samo zbog prethodno navedenog.

2.5So, I picked this book up because it came recommended and because I like Hugh Laurie both from House and Black Adder, so I was curious as to what a book of his would be like.Well, the one aspect which seems to be promoted above all others is the humor it s dry and droll and nigh constant But, while I did find some of the observations wry and humorous, I did not, unfortunately, find it nearly as uproarious as some others did I also found it to wear kind of thin after not too long a while.Hones [...]

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us I will try to prevent my adoration of the brilliant Hugh Laurie affect my review of his first and, to date, only published novel, but I will admit that it was the only reason I was initially interested in reading The Gun Seller While the book itself might not be expressly profound or lasting, it s great for some light reading or airplane reading, as it was for me Overall, this spy genre spoof is great fun If y [...]

I have a piece of advice for you if you decide to read this book which you should Do not read it in an elevator, on a bus, in a hotel lobby, in a hospital waiting room, in the car when you re a passenger or when you re the driver, for a obvious reason , while standing in line at the bank grocery store customer service desk, while standing round waiting for the mechanics to finish with your oil change, at school, at work, or any other public arena where people can observe you.Why, you may ask Th [...]

The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie 8.25 Yeah The author is that Hugh Laurie.If you ve been reading these reviews of mine, you know I m pretty tight with a buck when it comes to Kindle books I love to troll through kinlib looking for promising freebies and I rarely buy a Kindle book priced higher than 4.99 And this book is priced pretty steepishly at 8.25 Yikes, right HOWEVER if you download the free sample, as I did, and read it, as I did, I ll bet you end up parting with that 8.25, as I did.What a [...]

Perhaps it s unfair to review this book seeing as I haven t finished reading it yet, but I ll do it anyway I think, perhaps, I picked up this book for the wrong reason I wasn t particularly interested in the story, though it did intrigue me In all honesty, I picked it up because Hugh Laurie wrote it and I love him More specifically, I love Robert Sean Leonard who stars with Hugh Laurie on House , but has not actually written a book so this was the best I could do This, I have discovered, is the [...]

This was a clever send up of the spy genre, but if Hugh Laurie were not working so hard to be clever in every single line, I think it would be a smoother read.While the narrator s thoughts on sex drives, cars, how people look like their desks, etc, etc, are wry, witty, and amusing they do not further the plot or the move the action along.I will grant that it may be half the point of a spy novel to never know quite who is working for or with whom, this novel was overly full of characters who appe [...]

Rather good, rather funny, rather decent plot.Write some Mr Laurie

Hugh Laurie is one of my favorite human beings on the planet Actor, comedian, musician, rowing champion in his younger days, he s an insanely talented person Turns out that he s one hell of a great hard boiled mystery writer as well This fast moving story of a kind of jack of all trades detective who gets caught up in the world of arms smuggling, terrorism, international intrigue probably doesn t sound very fun, but oh man is it ever.Anyone familiar with Hugh Laurie and his dark and snarky humor [...]

Well, I can t say I m surprised that Hugh Laurie s comic genius extends to writing novels just as well as it does to bringing other people s novels to life This one isn t just funny, it s better plotted than most James Bond capers and with interesting characters to boot Laurie also finds time to pepper the book with his protagonists charming philosophizing, like this when he s discussing why it is he thinks he is isn t in a relationship Men and women want different things Men want to have sex w [...]

Quelle lecture difficile Franchement, je ne pense pas en garder un grand souvenir Si je devais vous r sumer l histoire, je ne saurais pas quoi vous dire Nous avons un personnage principal qui a le don de se retrouver dans les embrouilles, une femme fatale, des h licopt res anti terrorisme, des pistes de ski suisses, des am ricains et le minist re de la d fense anglais dont on se demande pourquoi il a t int gr au r cit L intrigue est tr s d cousue et je me suis v ritablement ennuy e avec ce bouqu [...]

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