Comments on: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Review

By: Phillip Sobel

Phillip Sobel — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:41:35 +0000

Great! According to Marie above he’s got another one in the works…very exciting!

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:55:31 +0000

I NEVER tire of watching House. I am amazed by this show, its writers, and by Hugh Laurie’s performance week after week. So much so that I too have started to crave more information about the man. Before your post I didn’t know he authored a novel. Now, my next stop is to go over at Amazon and buy the book.

By: marie

marie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:19:45 +0000

Thank you Mr Sobel for your promp reply, I would also like to mention that whilst reading the Gunseller I was intrigued from the very first paragraph and I only realised why when I read your review , >quote “Laurie has chosen to write from the first person perspective,”unquote < thats what grabbed me from the ofset, not being a writer myself and being old enough to have gone to school when religious education was the main subject I had no idea what writing from the first person perspective really meant , but I realise now thats what I found to be exciting and I can also understand why you said it was courageous and limits the options, wow!!!! just goes to prove one is never to old to learn , thank you ,I will try to impress my niece ( who is doing an OU creative writing course at the moment )by telling her that The Gun Seller was even more interesting because it was written from the first person perspective he he!!! ..xx

By: Phillip Sobel

Phillip Sobel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:35:36 +0000

It’s funny you mention the House/Lang link. I said that I pictured Lang as Hugh Laurie, what I neglected to mention is that it was Hugh laurie as House. The man is a genius.

By: marie

marie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:30:44 +0000

Thank you for the book review Mr Sobel ,I think you got it spot on , I really enjoyed the book very much too , I couldnt put it down , I also realised that a similar wit is diplayed by both Thomas Lang and Gregory House which leads me to believe that Laurie is more involved in ‘House’ than just the acting (which by the way is just incredible week after week after week , the man can speak volumes without a word of dialogue) ,he has according to interviews started another novel , not sure if it is a follow up to The Gun Seller or something completely different , he has had trouble finishing it because of is workload since House started , but I await the second one named ‘The Paper Soldier ‘ with anticipation, he is also directing a futre episode of House which could be interesting, it seems there are several strings to Mr Laurie’s bow. we hear very little of his successes or aknowledge his incredible talents here in England maybe thats because he seems to be all round nice guy as well….boring as far as the media are concerned ….But I think he likes it that way , well done Mr Laurie hope you continue to succeed in every field . xx Marie