#lehane

Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels – Lehane knows how to spin. Now he’s two years into what might be his most impossible gig yet: as OpenAI’s VP of global policy, his job is to convince the world that OpenAI genuinely…

A book of this caliber only comes maybe once in a decade — so superior that the first time I read Darkness, I looked into buying the rights to adapt it into a film myself. To be honest, none of the follow-up novels surpass Darkness. Between the characters, the plot, the foreshadowing, and the villains, Darkness exhausts the majority of the series’ assets — to the point that I’ve wondered if maybe that was the real reason Lehane stopped writing them. Metal Gear itself is a long-running series, arriving at its twenty-fifth anniversary next year (2012). Each time a new Metal Gear comes out, I declare to the press, “This will be the final Metal Gear I will ever make.” My reason is the same as the one Lehane gave in that interview: all stories have an end. All creators, too, have an end. I would like to bring my story to its end before I arrive at mine. So why then do I keep on continuing the same series? The answer lies within the Kenzie & Gennaro series. As long as the fans fervently want more, the story cannot end. A creator may try to end it, but he will never be able to turn his back on his fans. And yet creators and their series are not eternal. That’s how we get stuck in this spiral. I gave Darkness, Take My Hand another read, and there I found a message from Lehane. In his message, I found advice — and an expression of my own inner feelings.

What, do you want to live forever?

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

Book: Shutter Island

Author: Dennis Lehane

My Rating: ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ (4 Stars)

Read: March 21, 2021

Synopsis:  

An arresting psychological thriller in which two US Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control. This book was the basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

The drop – Chi è senza colpa

Dennis Lehane è una garanzia. Quando avrò guardato anche Gone baby gone e letto L’isola della paura (mea culpa, del primo ho letto solo il libro, del secondo ho visto solo il film), dovrò aspettare nuove uscite e lo farò in trepidante attesa.

Ho colmato le ultime (quasi!) lacune leggendo Chi è senza colpa (The Drop) e guardando il film, che al contrario del solito è precedente al libro:  infatti…

La legge della notte – Tutti i miei errori – Dennis Lehane

Il tempo si affitta ma non si possiede mai. (TimE)

Se Quello era l’anno è forse il più bello, il più compiuto, Tutti i miei errori è sicuramente il più sofferto, il più doloroso della trilogia. Avevo già letto quest’ultimo ma resami conto di aver saltato il secondo capitolo, come ho già spiegato, ho deciso di ricominciare con ordine. Il protagonista del secondo e del terzo libro non è più Danny…