Condor Thriller(s)

 I love a good spy thriller, as you know, and I try to read all of the classics of the genre and watch them when there are any available. I watched Three Days of the Condor a few times, I even read James Grady's Six Days of the Condor. Great author to read, by the way, I suggest you see his other works (I haven't many of them, but still), not only the one that made him famous. Anyway, I recently learned that, like many iconic stories, this one got readapted in 2018, a TV series simply titled Condor. There's too many of them these days, on too many streaming services, it's hard to keep track, so I had no idea it even existed. I guess I will have to check if I can see it somewhere. If you have seen it, please leave a comment. In the meantime, I recommend the original novel. You might also find interesting that Grady wrote a sort of sequel to it, condor.net, setpost 9/11, with a new protagonist with the same codename.

Condor and Christmas

'Tis the season to be watching, and listening. If, like me, you like watching movies during Christmastime that are seasonal but not too soppy or sugaree, I have a suggestion for you. I pretty much go for the same thing I would go all year long, but with a Christmas twist. And there is one film that could be considered a Christmas movie, because it is set during Christmastime. I am talking about Three Days of the Condor. For those who never watched it, stop reading now and do not watch the video in this post. Anyway, while the original novel, which differs significantly from its more famous adaptation, is set in a different time of year, Yuletide is definitely in the background of the film. And moreso in its last scene, which I am sharing today. It gives a definitely darker yet very realistic edge to the Season.

A Book for Spy Wednesday

I don't know for you, but I am getting quite impatient about Easter. And we are "only" Holy Wednesday. Which, as I had mentioned back in 2017, is also called Spy Wednesday. So I thought it would be fitting to give the followers of this blog one reading suggestion for today. As you know, I tend to choose the books I read according to the time of year: horror during autumn leading to Halloween, something wintery for Christmas, some summery for summertime, etc. And mostly crime fiction all year round, to be honest. As I'm not the religious type, I don't often go for Biblical stories, even for Easter. But anyway, recently I read some spy thriller and what would be more fitting than spy fiction on Spy Wednesday? So I recommend that you give Six Days of the Condor, James Grady's debut novel, a go. It was of course adapted (and condensed) into Three Days of the Condor to the cinema, but there are enough differences between the source material and the film to make it enjoyable for those who have only seen the movie. Plus there is on the edition I have the novella/novelette Condor.net which is a sequel/remake of the story by the author himself. But anyway, while the film is set around Christmastime, the novel is set around this time of year, so all the more reasons to read this now.