High Noon by Nora Roberts (2007)
Read: January 2011
I was sent this book as part of the UKNova gift swap. The swap is designed for you to send/receive gifts that show something about the place that you live in. So I got a copy of High Noon by Nora Roberts. And not just any copy - a signed copy! Apparently it took 12 hours of queuing to get this signed the sender told me and that "it's very American"...
I was a little surprised to get a book, as normally you get some weird food stuffs or tea towels and post cards, but as I am a real booky person since moving out here it was a really great gift (I don't know if the sender knew this or not). I didn't know the book or author, but a little browse on the internet and I think it's been made into a TV series (?).
Halfway through reading it my thoughts were:
Read: January 2011
I was sent this book as part of the UKNova gift swap. The swap is designed for you to send/receive gifts that show something about the place that you live in. So I got a copy of High Noon by Nora Roberts. And not just any copy - a signed copy! Apparently it took 12 hours of queuing to get this signed the sender told me and that "it's very American"...
I was a little surprised to get a book, as normally you get some weird food stuffs or tea towels and post cards, but as I am a real booky person since moving out here it was a really great gift (I don't know if the sender knew this or not). I didn't know the book or author, but a little browse on the internet and I think it's been made into a TV series (?).
Halfway through reading it my thoughts were:
"I'm reading the book that I was sent in the UKNova gift swap at the moment. The sender said that it describes America really well - well only if America is full of "single, female hostage negotiators with a complicated back story and love life that collides with their professional life only to find romance blossom but be under threat by a colleague at the same time" Bleugh! I'll try and finish it to do the swap justice...."
Did my view change? Well I ploughed through it quickly enough - it was an easy read and although it was a bit trashy it was more engaging than some fiction that's all about love and life. This was a cop story with a bit of intrigued and so it was entertaining and I had to think a bit (not much, but a bit).
I'm still not sure how this is "really American". It can't described a typical American life or American Dream, can it? Maybe the dramatisation and love-through-complicated-back-story-with-hang-ups is typically American TV / Book and this is what is popular there. Yes that must be it - kind of like CSI is popular maybe? The fact that this book has the "Nora Roberts seal" that guarantees that it is an original work suggests how prolific this writer is - Americans just can't get enough of it I assume.
Did my view change? Well I ploughed through it quickly enough - it was an easy read and although it was a bit trashy it was more engaging than some fiction that's all about love and life. This was a cop story with a bit of intrigued and so it was entertaining and I had to think a bit (not much, but a bit).
I'm still not sure how this is "really American". It can't described a typical American life or American Dream, can it? Maybe the dramatisation and love-through-complicated-back-story-with-hang-ups is typically American TV / Book and this is what is popular there. Yes that must be it - kind of like CSI is popular maybe? The fact that this book has the "Nora Roberts seal" that guarantees that it is an original work suggests how prolific this writer is - Americans just can't get enough of it I assume.
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