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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Recurring Characters of Sliders, Kromagg, Quinn Mallory, Maximillian Arturo, Wade Welles, Colin Mallory, Maggie Beckett, Rembrandt Brown, Diana Davis, Mallory. Excerpt:Colin Mallory Colin Mallory is a fictional character on the science fiction show Sliders played by Charlie O'Connell . He was introduced in the sixth episode of the fourth season, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". Quinn Mallory had only learned Colin was his brother five episodes earlier in "Genesis ". When the sliders found Colin, he was flying a hangglider that he invented, and had gotten stuck in a tree. The local residents were angry at Colin for doing this because they were afraid his inventions might have negative consequences. One of the residents wanted to shoot Colin to get it over with, until the sheriff told the angry residents to go home. When the sheriff said, "One of these days you're going to go a bit too far, Colin Mallory!" the sliders knew that this was Quinn's brother. The universe Colin was raised on had far less technology than Earth Prime . Colin invented the first machine on this earth that generates electricity. This was one of his many inventions. The local residents believed that Colin was "doing the devil's work" with his inventions. Colin believed that electricity is both safe and useful and wished he could convince the local residents the same thing. Colin was in love with someone named Suzanne on his earth. However, her mother disapproved Colin, because of her fear of Colin's inventions. Suzanne was engaged to another person. Colin's adoptive parents (duplicates on the world Colin was raised of Colin's actual parents) died when Colin was very young; since this earth had little technology, there was not the medical technology necessary to cure Colin's parents of their illness. Since the... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Rembrandt Brown, Wade Wells, Quinn Mallory, Maximilien Arturo, Maggie Beckett, Colin Mallory, Diana Davis. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Rembrandt Brown est un personnage de la série Sliders, interprété par Cleavant Derricks. Il s'agit certainement du personnage qui a le plus évolué dans la série et qui est le seul à être resté dans la série entière. Avant la glisse, il se montre très arrogant et prétentieux. Au départ chanteur râleur et dragueur, il plaque son groupe de gospel afin d'entamer une carrière solo. Lorsque Quinn, Wade et le professeur Arturo embarquent pour leur premier voyage, il est accidentellement aspiré lui aussi par le vortex et en voudra longtemps à Quinn de l'avoir (bien malgré lui) embarqué dans cette aventure. Ses rapports avec sa famille ne sont pas très chaleureux : On sait peu de choses sur son père qu'il ne voit jamais, il s'est brouillé avec sa mère le jour où il est parti commencer une carrière de chanteur et son frère Cézanne se montre souvent jaloux et arrogant envers lui (seulement dans un épisode). Il a été aspiré par un vortex alors qu'il était sur le point de relancer sa carrière. Dans la seconde et dans la troisième saison, il devient d'avantage un homme d'action et trouve sa place au sein du groupe. Dans la quatrième saison, après avoir passé trois mois dans un camp de détention Kromagg, sa personnalité change : il devient plus courageux , plus généreux et ses répliques sont toujours teintées d'humour et /ou de sagesse. Dans la cinquième saison, après le départ de Quinn, il devient le nouveau chef du groupe. Dans un premier temps, Rembrandt s'exclut volontairement du groupe et lorsqu'il en revient, c'est en général parce qu'il pense qu'il rentrera chez lu...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This audio box set contains three crime mysteries by Colin Dexter, all read by Kevin Whately, who plays the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis in the Inspector Morse TV series. The titles are: "Last Bus to Woodstock", "Last Seen Wearing" and "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn". ... Read more

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Another fabulous Morse mystery
A must read for any fan of British police procedurals. The entire Inspector Morse series is fantastic.

Excellent Brit crime fiction
Very much enjoyed the novel.Well worth the read if you are a fan of the TV series.

Sophisticated Mystery
This novel gets off to a suspenseful start. It is beautifully, thoughtfully and cleverly written--no question. However, you need to pay attention or you might get lost along the way. Characters are at times reintroduced with no reminder as to who they are. You might get the Bakers and Palmers in the story confused, or just have forgotten who they are. The denouement was quite intricate and threatened to give me a headache, I was trying so hard to follow the thread and make sure I had picked up on everything. And, finally, the propensity of young girls to fall for middle-aged men in this book is amusing (a wishful-thinking trait endemic to many male written mysteries). These are the only reasons I did not give LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK five stars; it is just this side of brilliant, and Colin Dexter's depiction of Sergeant Lewis, in particular, is truly masterful.

Noteworthy Book
Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse now reigns quite alone among the post-Christie detectives. This may annoy any number of readers who prefer other modern writers' detectives, but none of their authors enjoyed the remarkable recreation John Thaw brought to the televised series. There was an almost declasse Cary Grant attraction to his character in the films: it was impossible not to be just a little dazzled by such heady charm. Indeed, along with Alec Guinness as Smiley and David Suchet as Poirot, Thaw's performance was a touchstone, and quite moved Dexter's detective right to the top of public awareness. Will Inspector Morse remain there? I suspect he might. The public adores mysteries, but the memorable characters set the best ones apart from the pack. And Morse appears a most memorable creation.
This novel, the very first in the series, quickly showcases Inspector Morse's idiosycrasies in so charming a way that when he's not around the book falters. I noticed a similar reaction of my own when first reading Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles - with Holmes so out of the way the plot frequently dragged. Fortunately Morse is far more involved here, and up front, and the story moves along.
In many ways Morse seems a predecesor of television's House - they both are very eccentric and brusque, anti-establishment, and creative - both enjoy solving very stumping problems; both play against straight-arrow subalterns; and both tend to make a lot of ego misjudgements before resolving a mystery. With House it's usually - though not always - a medical issue, while with Morse naturally it's solving a murder. Both too are crippled emotionally and resort to pain-killing drugs - House his vicodin, Morse enormous quantities of bitters. The analogy could easily be extended in many other directions.
The Last Bus to Woodstock won a well-deserved mystery award in England. Local color - Oxford - rings true, if not all the characterizations, which vary in quality from quite good to paper-thin. Strong sexual content doubtless helped publish in the first place - such are the requirements of editors. For a first in the series it's quite good. Future books elaborate many of the charms of the Inspector.
Along with Jasper Fford's way out stuff, Dexter's series must be considered one of the major works of popular detective fiction coming out of England.

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Colin Dexter was born in 1930 and, over the course of his writing career, has won CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. "Last Bus to Woostock" was his debut novel, was first published in 1975 and introduced the world to the famous Inspector Morse.

However, the book's victim is introduced before the hero. Sylvia Kaye and a friend are travelling into Ocford city centre for a night out - unfortunately, believing they had missed the last bus, the pair had hitched into town. Several hours later, Sylvia's body is found in the car park at the back of the Black Prince, with the murder weapon - a heavy tyre spanner - conveniently lying beside her. The case sees Morse paired up with Sergeant Lewis for the first time. The pair seem to have little in common : where Lewis is married and reads the Daily Mirror, Morse is single, lives alone and enjoys the cryptic crosswords in the Times. Morse is fussy about spelling and grammar, enjoys classical music and is partial to a few drinks. The crime scene, being a pub, would appear to be a case of the Inspector mixing work and pleasure - and, although he isn't supposed to drink on the job, he happily bends that rule once in a while. (He also seems to take great pleasure in refusing to allow Lewis do the same). When the investigation gets up and running, Morse is very curious about two people in particular :Sylvia's friend - who, strangely, remains anonymous and doesn't come forward - and whoever it was picked the pair up.

"Last Bus to Woodstock" is quite possibly the politest murder-mystery book I have ever read - for example, Morse's arrival at the scene of the crime is announced with the exclamation "How he hated sex murders !". There didn't really seem to be much method to the investigation - it's built on assumptions and leaps of faith - while I found it a little odd there was no apparent lab work. (The murder weapon, which was found at the scene, was roundly ignored !). I realise the book was written in the 1970s, but surely some fingerprinting and forensics work would have been available - even in Oxford?Overall, the book is a little slow and plodding, and by the time the book reached its climax - where Morse revealed all - I really didn't care all that much. Based on Morse's popularity, I can only assume the series improves drastically as it goes along. ... Read more