Trevanian means The Main, his stronger and best book ...if
you like your meat a bit raw and sizzling and the pavement
wet and dirty just like in Glasgow...
...after that the other books are good, as in ³it¹s a good
book, solid²...and therefore forgetable...
Montois...
On 2/21/05 8:51 PM, "Michael Robison" <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>
> I have some photos from Cu Chi which I can
post
> sometime (soon, I hope, possibly this week). You
hear
> about the tunnels, but nothing quite prepares you
for
> seeing the things. I swear a ten-year-old would
have
> trouble moving in them.
>
> *************
> Post em! I wanna see em! Who took the
pictures?
> We've got caves outside of Bloomington that I've
done
> my share of, some of them pretty tight. Wayne's
Lost
> is a thousand foot crawl to get into, but only
the
> last 300 feet is flat on your belly squirming
forward.
> I have a friend who has told me of moves he had
to
> make where he had to exhale before he could do
it.
> WAHOOO!! Too much for me. Am I getting
off-topic?
> To bring it back, Trevanian's SHIBUMI has some
great
> caving scenes in it. Although probably too
simplistic
> and sensationalistic for some, I heartily
recommend
> anything by Trevanian, especially SHIBUMI and
EIGER
> SANCTION. Doing it by feel, SHIBUMI stands as a
good
> argument that hardboiled doesn't require
the
> colloquial.
>
> miker
>
>
>
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