Books for the adventurous mind

When suspense is your first name and satire your last, you may be the author of The Gun Seller. Written by Hugh Laurie already about 10 years ago. Laurie, who is probably best known for his role as Dr. House, could have made the scripts to his acting dialogues by himself. At least, that’s going to be your impression when you know the TV series and start reading his first novel afterwards. The book shows his ability to play off childish and driest satirical counterquestions at its best.

It’s pretty easy read and makes struggles for survival seem rather ordinary and almost comfortable. Laurie narrates in the first person and you’re to follow his thoughts about almost anything while going from one unconventional situation to another. This makes it a nice piece to read for now and then and even in between. One might criticise that there are often new characters introduced and maybe that the whole story is missing some of the depth it’s seeking, but the conversations itself work and bring a lot of wit and intelligence into it. His descriptions of characters and situations but most of all his art of answering without an actual answer are somehow comic-ous and simply great.

Read if you like:
intelligent fights, comic situations, satiric dialogues and House MD.
Don’t read if you don’t like:
dry humour, Great Britain, English, noir crimes or fast motorcycles.

How to solve problem-free situations

As you may have realised about 50 postings later, these texts are not about real problems. Most of these statements are meant to help to concentrate on our own greatest fault: the imaginary creation of problems where there are none. They are thought to show, quite plainly and maybe in an a bit exaggerated way, the simplicity of most things without our complex thinking overhead. Some might call that satiric. Well, to be honest, I’d like to go a bit with Oscar Wilde who said “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you”.
Alright, this is the 49th post; the last of the 7th series with seven texts per series, each from 200 to 300 words. So much for the statistics. Now, I could ask if it’s fun to read for anyone else besides myself. Or maybe, if another mind can understand or even enjoy such sentences like the one where I compare courage to a blind fly in the previous post How to run on caffeine.

Are the hours of sweating brain waves, producing more firing neurons than rockets in New York city – on New Year’s Eve – for such punchlines like used in In the dark shadows die appreciated or even noticed? Don’t worry, I won’t ask. Nevertheless, I really value every comment – except those about cheap Viagra and other tasty pills, those bastards never deliver. Anyway, if you got something to say, say it, or else stop making noise.
Once the crisis got out of your hands, you can stop worrying!