Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008)
Teoksen Outsider in Amsterdam tekijä
About the Author
Janwillem Van de Wetering was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands on February 12, 1931. He traveled extensively, both geographically and philosophically, his adventures ranging from being a motorcycle gang member to a Buddhist, a real estate salesman in Australia to an exporter in Holland. He was a näytä lisää police officer in Amsterdam from 1966 to 1975 and his crime novels featuring detectives Grijpstra and De Gier were based on his experiences. He also wrote a trilogy based on the time he spent at a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery and wrote children's books about a porcupine named Hugh Pine. In 1984, he received the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He died on July 4, 2008 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Disambiguation Notice:
(dut) Jan van de Wetering is not the same as Janwillem van de Wetering
(eng) Jan van de Wetering is not the same as Janwillem van de Wetering
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These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Avustaja — 88 kappaletta
Five Auspicious Clouds / Morning of the Monkey / He Came with the Rain (1969) — Johdanto, eräät painokset — 26 kappaletta
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Murder and Other Mishaps Anthology #27 (1989) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
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- Syntymäaika
- 1931-02-12
- Kuolinaika
- 2008-07-04
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- Netherlands
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- Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Blue Hill, Maine, USA
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- Surry, Maine, USA
Cape Town, South Africa
London, England, UK
Kyoto, Japan
Columbia
Peru (näytä kaikki 8)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ammatit
- detective novelist
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- Jan van de Wetering is not the same as Janwillem van de Wetering
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This book wasn't a good fit for me at all. I don't know where I got the willpower necessary to finish it, but somehow I managed it.
It seems that this may have at least partly been a cultural issue - this excellent review on Goodreads explains how Grijpstra and De Gier's policing style incorporates the Dutch concept of gezelligheid. I could definitely tell that they had a more laid-back approach to policing than I expected, and I recall being intrigued by the negative way characters, even (especially?) police officers, responded to things phrased as orders.
That said, this book made for excruciatingly slow reading, and I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters (in fact, I had trouble remembering which one was Grijpstra and which one was De Gier most of the time). I haven't read the previous two books in the series, but I don't think that was as much of an issue as the characters' overall attitude. It probably didn't help that the way the various police characters leered at female witnesses made my skin crawl. The best part was when this hilariously backfired on De Gier and left him stranded without gas, stuck with an annoying child and a troublesome woman.
Not a series I plan on revisiting.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)… (lisätietoja)