Geoff de Peri

Leaps of Faith, 12 avril 2012

Just finished reading In the Blood by Steve Robinson. I found it quite an enjoyable, light-hearted read. My criticisms are that I had an unfortunate image of Jefferson Tayte as looking like Sergeant Bilko and the image became even worse when he was compared to Larry Hagman, both comical figures in my book, so hard to take seriously. That was also the problem with several situations in the book when Tayte should have been dead and buried many times, but the story had to continue of course. Also the way Tayte moved around the area was hardly credible, but if you like your crime light-hearted you got over that. I also found there was a lot of packaging in the book, descriptions of landscapes,… Lire la suite

The Guardian on Kindle, 17 janvier 2012

I thought I would give The Guardian a try on the Kindle even though there is plenty of content free online. Although I found the Kindle version very handy being easily transportable and able to be read anywhere the product, in my view, suffered in comparison with the printed version (very much so) and the online version. This morning there was no sport section, which is inexcusable. I will not be renewing my subscription.