Lucinda and I are slowly watching every Alfred Hitchcock film in chronological order. One of his earlier films is based on The Thirty-Nine Steps, so I figured I'd read it before watching the movie. And I have to say that I don't see how this book ranked so high on this list... The plot is fairly simple. They guy, Richard Hannay, finds out about an international conspiracy and is then chased all over the English countryside by unknown people while he figures out what to do. Buchan's style is very plain and basically one thing after another happens to this guy and he just narrowly escapes everything. The main character isn't well developed and he just goes from situation to situation. The book is short but a lot of stuff happens so I felt like none of the scenes really had a chance to build up the suspense that could have been there. I'll give this one a B.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Mystery Book # 22 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Lucinda and I are slowly watching every Alfred Hitchcock film in chronological order. One of his earlier films is based on The Thirty-Nine Steps, so I figured I'd read it before watching the movie. And I have to say that I don't see how this book ranked so high on this list... The plot is fairly simple. They guy, Richard Hannay, finds out about an international conspiracy and is then chased all over the English countryside by unknown people while he figures out what to do. Buchan's style is very plain and basically one thing after another happens to this guy and he just narrowly escapes everything. The main character isn't well developed and he just goes from situation to situation. The book is short but a lot of stuff happens so I felt like none of the scenes really had a chance to build up the suspense that could have been there. I'll give this one a B.
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