Graham Greene

[dfloyd]

His Entertainments, so called by Greene, were short novels to be read as nothing more than entertaining stories.

1. Stamboul train
2. A Gun For Sale
3. The Confidential Agent
4. The Ministry of Fear
5. The Third Man
6. Our Man in Havana

Many of these were made into movies: a Gun for Sale was called This Gun for Hire and made Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake stars. The Ministry of Fear starred Ray Milland with a Full Head of Hair. He was the bald father in Love Story. The Third Man starred Orson Welles as Harry Lime being pursued by Joseph Cotton in post war Vienna. Our Man in Havana was a farce with a plethora of stars: Alec Guiness, Burl Ives, Noel Coward, and the beautiful Maureen Ohara. All the books are good as are the movies because they are entertaining.

[MANICHAEAN]

My favourite with the wiskey priest in Mexico was "The Power and the Glory."

M.

[Fafnir]

I recently read The Human Factor and really enjoyed it.
It was refreshing to read such an unglamorous espionage novel, it was quite bleak at times.

[Mariner]

Read The Destructors. Donnie Darko can't be wrong!

[kelby_lake]

There is a difference to the way that Pinkie is killed at the end of the novel
and no happy ending as in the film but it doesn't matter, because either way both book and film are excellent.

I wouldn't say that it's a 'happy' ending to the film. I like the ironic twist at the end

Has anybody seen the new adaptation?

[Emil Miller]

I wouldn't say that it's a 'happy' ending to the film. I like the ironic twist at the end

Has anybody seen the new adaptation?

You have got me worried. God help us, not another schoolboy interpretation?

[kelby_lake]

You have got me worried. God help us, not another schoolboy interpretation?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233192/

It's set in the sixties.

[Emil Miller]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233192/

It's set in the sixties.

Yep, another schoolboy interpretation that appears, thankfully, to have sunk without trace.

[tonywalt]

The Comedians is very good, and still relevant today.

I stayed at the Oloffson Hotel in Haiti before the earthquake quite a bit on business in the last 10 years. They named a room after Graham Greene and also one of the characters in the book Aubelin Jolicoeur, (Petit Pierre was the name of his thinly veiled character) hung out at the busy bar in Petionville most nights. Aubelin died a few years ago.