Tag: Jacob Smith
March 21st, 2012 – Book Cover: hickory Dickory Death by Agatha Christie
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.21, 2012, under Books, Illusration
Nice illustration on the cover of Agatha Christie’s Hickory Dickory Death.
March 20th, 2012 – Book cover – Murder in the Calais Coach by Agatha Christie
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.20, 2012, under Books, Illusration
Here’s a cover by Harvey Kidder from Murder in the Cardais Coach (later named Murder on the Orient Express).
March 19th, 2012 – Book cover – Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.19, 2012, under Books, Illusration
This version of Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice has a Mike Ludlow cover. The wiping away of the film on the pane is amazing painting work.
March 14th, 2012 – Artwork!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.15, 2012, under Cartooning
Had to get a flurry of artwork done today! Here’s a montage of some of it!
March 5th, 2012 – Book: the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.05, 2012, under Books
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The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a very enthralling and involved story of an amnesiac who finds out he is an assassin and wants to know why. Author Robert Ludlum created a very thorough story that, though a little wordy in dialogue, is otherwise concise in a long narrative way.
Unlike so many of today’s super spies who are out to kill, the main character, Jason Bourne, turns pacifist as an amnesiac. Though there is violence, it is far less than in current similar themed novels by Vince Flynn or Brad Thor. This is more of a study of a person trying to find themselves.
I love the series by folks like Flynn because they are so much fun to read. But, in light of Ludlum, they are missing the important parts of the story that makes the Ludlum book so much better in it’s writing and plotting.
About the movie: It might as well been named the Schwartz Identity. It’s a separate world than the one Ludlum created and made for the financial purposes of the film industry.
March 5th, 2012 – Azaleas!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.05, 2012, under Various
Been trying to grow azaleas in the yard for 6 years. FINALLY! – There are flowers!
Had originally planted 6 bushes. But due to a neighbor from up north who mowed the yard and believes a yard should only be grass, as the bushes came up, he would mow them down. I got the opportunity to ask him to stop mowing the yard. 3 were left standing. One is struggling. Two are flowering!
February 24th, 2012 – Swampy’s Florida Storybooks: Trilby’s Flower.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.24, 2012, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
February 23rd, 2012 – More Caricatures!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.23, 2012, under Caricatures
February 18th, 2012 – Caricatures all day!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.20, 2012, under Caricatures
February 7th, 2012: book – The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.07, 2012, under Books
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the first book of Hammett’s I’ve read and wish I’d read him in the past. This is a very good story. Well written. The skips in time by chapters does keep one wondering who might be involved with the central murder. There is no detective here. Just a fellow trying to help a pal. That fellow and just about everybody featured in the book are caught in an upcoming political election that is well described and helps move the story move beyond the average who-done-it. I look forward to reading more Hammett in the future.
February 4th & 5th, 2012 – Caricatures!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.07, 2012, under Caricatures, Cartooning
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