Finished Nicolas Freeling's THE BUGLES BLOWING on the return
flight yesterday. It's about the investigation of a triple
murder in France, written by Nicolas Freeling. I started it a
long time ago but Freeling kept digressing from the story
into tiresome essays on the French judicial system and I put
it aside. When I came back to it Freeling returned to the
story for a while and it got mildly interesting for a while,
but it sagged again towards the end. The book probably
doesn't even warrant discussing on the list. It had a modicum
of toughness, but the amount of effort the characters put
into avoiding being colloquial was phenomenal. There were
certain scenes that were worth a smile, but the dialogue was
dominated ad nauseum with obfuscation and obscure innuendo. I
guess it was a point Freeling was trying to make. He made it
over and over and over again. In the end I was just disgusted
with it.
And what the hell was that ending all about? The general
implication was obvious with the classified meeting and the
"Shalom" but I didn't see all the pieces falling into place.
It didn't make any sense.
Freeling gets two thumbs down.
miker
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