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Coordinator of Public Services
My Interests
Reading
Ian Fleming's James Bond
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Ian Fleming's novels are great reads. John
Gardner, Kingsley Amis, and others have attempted to continue the
series. However, there was only one Ian Fleming. And only
one Bond. See Movies.
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Tom Clancy
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Clancy's novel are great techno-thrillers.
Of course, he's wordy. His latest, "The Bear and the
Dragon," (1028 pages) has gotten bad reviews because it is too
wordy, not as coherent as his previous novels. I haven't read it
yet, it's still on a long holds list.
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An interesting quote from "The Power of Simplicity" by Jack
Trout:
"When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, he had 20,000 words with which to work.
When Lincoln scribbled the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope there
were about 114,000 words at his disposal. Today there are more than
600,000 words in Webster's Dictionary. Tom Clancy appears to have
used all of them in his last thousand-page novel."
Movies
All the Bond movies, except the ones with Timothy Dalton (he just was
not Bond!!!). Of all the actors playing Bond, Sean Connery
was the best, with Roger Moore a close second. Connery has the perfect
"devil may care" attitude for the part.
I'm a sucker for Christmas movies. All of them.
Music
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Chopin
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