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A review by tbr_the_unconquered
Enter The Saint by Leslie Charteris
3.0
There used to be this time when romantic ideals ruled the roost in terms of fantastic fiction.I mean characters like Robin Hood, Arsene Lupin, The Phantom and the person in question : Simon Templar. They all had this rather nasty habit of swindling the rich and arrogant buggers of the society and giving those away to the poor. They all come up with rather ingenious heists and leave the bad guys penniless by the time they are done.
The stories here all follow this thread and it is quite fun to read. There is no real sense of danger or fear in them even when intentions of the antagonists are nothing short of murderous. The authors daughter writes in the foreword that she could hear her father chuckling to himself as he tapped away these stories at his typewriter. It is not hard to imagine him doing so for he would have had oodles of fun writing these : car chases, damsels in distress, ugly villains and an ultra cool hero with nerves of steel. What more do we need ? It was more akin to watching a good old cartoon show and I could practically imagine the speech bubbles with words like 'bam' and 'ka pow' during the fight scenes.
While all of it was fun, I prefer a more refined thief. Mr.Daniel Ocean, this means you !
The stories here all follow this thread and it is quite fun to read. There is no real sense of danger or fear in them even when intentions of the antagonists are nothing short of murderous. The authors daughter writes in the foreword that she could hear her father chuckling to himself as he tapped away these stories at his typewriter. It is not hard to imagine him doing so for he would have had oodles of fun writing these : car chases, damsels in distress, ugly villains and an ultra cool hero with nerves of steel. What more do we need ? It was more akin to watching a good old cartoon show and I could practically imagine the speech bubbles with words like 'bam' and 'ka pow' during the fight scenes.
While all of it was fun, I prefer a more refined thief. Mr.Daniel Ocean, this means you !