Patrick Woodhead
Autor de The Cloud Maker
7 Obras 159 Miembros 4 Reseñas
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Xirxe | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 2, 2014 | I couldn;t get excited about this book. Tells of Luca, a self centered mountain climber who (having almost left his clibing buddy to die on a mountain just so he could make the summit) drags him back out to the Himalayas to climb a mytical pyramid mountain. On the way to the mountain they get themselves and otherpeople into all sorts of trouble, most of it relating to the Chinese captain who is intent on stopping them, as he thinks they're intent on saving the Panchen Lama (apologies for spelling). It jumps about from Luca to the Captain and his unfortunate sidekick, and is generally disjointed. It didn't flow, was all a bit far-fetched and with a character quite as unsympathetic as Luca it's difficult to care. It wasn't that it was bad, it just wasn't my thing.… (más)
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Helenliz | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 30, 2013 | The inappropriately named Secret Chamber continues the misadventures of climber extraordinaire Lucca Matthews, hero of Woodhead’s promising debut novel The Cloud Maker.
Traumatised and unbalanced by the death of a friend, Lucca has lost his climbing nerve and works as a porter in the Himalayas until forced back into reality by a distress call from his godfather, sending him off to ‘the black heart of Africa’ in search of a childhood companion.
In the dangerous depths of the Congo’s Ituri Forest he meets his love interest, ‘Bear’ Makuru, the ripe and shapely half-French mining expert and pilot who is investigating explosions in Coltan mines.
In the best tradition of old fashioned adventure tales, cliché follows cliché as our couple encounters ‘half-witted Boers’ and evil Chinamen, youthful psychopaths from the Lord’s Resistance Army and despotic monomaniacs, with plenty of pimps, mercenaries, secret mines, mysterious minerals and Rooivalk helicopters for good measure.
The book is not well-written and many of the details are laughably incorrect – acacia trees in a rainforest? Bloemfontein a mining outpost in the Kalahari? – yet despite sloppy editing, sexism and racism, the story is utterly gripping and ends all to quickly. The Secret Chamber is a book I hated to love, but have to recommend to all lovers of fast-paced and thought-provoking action.… (más)
Traumatised and unbalanced by the death of a friend, Lucca has lost his climbing nerve and works as a porter in the Himalayas until forced back into reality by a distress call from his godfather, sending him off to ‘the black heart of Africa’ in search of a childhood companion.
In the dangerous depths of the Congo’s Ituri Forest he meets his love interest, ‘Bear’ Makuru, the ripe and shapely half-French mining expert and pilot who is investigating explosions in Coltan mines.
In the best tradition of old fashioned adventure tales, cliché follows cliché as our couple encounters ‘half-witted Boers’ and evil Chinamen, youthful psychopaths from the Lord’s Resistance Army and despotic monomaniacs, with plenty of pimps, mercenaries, secret mines, mysterious minerals and Rooivalk helicopters for good measure.
The book is not well-written and many of the details are laughably incorrect – acacia trees in a rainforest? Bloemfontein a mining outpost in the Kalahari? – yet despite sloppy editing, sexism and racism, the story is utterly gripping and ends all to quickly. The Secret Chamber is a book I hated to love, but have to recommend to all lovers of fast-paced and thought-provoking action.… (más)
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adpaton | Apr 24, 2012 | Patrick Woodhead, a professional adventurer with a South African connection, has written a wonderfully exciting story in the tradition of Alistair MacLean and Hammond Innes: when mountaineering fanatic Luca Matthews hears of a virgin peak in the Himalayas, he is determined to bag it, despite it being in a proscribed area of Tibet.
Pursued by the Chinese secret police and tormented by the elements, he gets thoroughly lost until he is brought to a secret monastery, the only one to survive Chinese depredations, which contains a hidden treasure. A page turner in the grand tradition, Cloud Maker is a great read for all lovers of authentic action adventure.… (más)
½Pursued by the Chinese secret police and tormented by the elements, he gets thoroughly lost until he is brought to a secret monastery, the only one to survive Chinese depredations, which contains a hidden treasure. A page turner in the grand tradition, Cloud Maker is a great read for all lovers of authentic action adventure.… (más)
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adpaton | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 24, 2010 | También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 159
- Popularidad
- #132,375
- Valoración
- 3.2
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 28
- Idiomas
- 4
Wie Lucas ehrgeizige Suche nach dem unbekannten Berg, die Flucht des elften Panchen Lama und seine Verfolgung durch Zhu zusammenhängen, schildert der Autor spannend und überwiegend realistisch - zumindest soweit ich dies beurteilen kann (die Kletterszenen empfand ich als durchaus glaubwürdig, Tibet kenne ich leider (noch) nicht). Seine Figuren sind detailliert und differenziert beschrieben, nur wenig wirkt konstruiert und zweifelhaft. Die Vermutung, der Roman drifte eventuell zu stark ins Mystische ab (wie auch der Titel vermuten lassen könnte), bestätigte sich nicht.
Alles in allem ein packender und dramatischer Abenteuerroman mit Thrillerelementen und aktuellem Bezug.… (más)