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| First Written | 1939 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Origin | UK |
| Publisher | Penguin |
| My Copy | library copy |
| First Read | March 04, 2025 |
Rogue Male
Asmodeus! This cat is a side character but has an INCREDIBLE story arc.
Noted on March 13, 2025
What a delight. Page turner, action packed, funny. Really reads like a spy movie. It's a tale of a British gentleman on the run, using his Sportsman Outdoorsiness while being hunted by Foreign Agents. A lot that rhymes with Riddle of the Sands, but this is much more exciting, and funny too. A+.
This has been on my list for a while, but it came up repeatedly in Ministry of Time, which nudged it up the list.
Noted on March 13, 2025
I must try to make my behavior intelligible. This confession - shall I call it? - is written to keep myself from brooding, to get down what happened in the order in which it happened. I am not content with myself. With this pencil and exercise book I hope to find some clarity. I create a second self, a man of the past by whom the man of the present may be measured.
Quoted on March 13, 2025
My arrival was noticed only by a boy and girl, the inevitable boy and girl to be found in every dark corner of a great city. Better provision should be made for them - a Park of Temporary Affection, for example, from which lecherous clergymen and aged civil servants should be rigorously excluded.
Quoted on March 13, 2025