Nice plot. Only Jeffrey Archer can deliver this kind of climax

lil incest jump scare

الكاتب بأسلوبه السهل السلس يجذبك لكي تكمل القراءة حتى النهاية ..

الرواية تحكي قصة رجل يدعى ( تشارلي ترامبر ) من طفولته و على مدى 70 سنة من حياته .. وكيف كان صراع أسرتين طويل الأمد

الرواية إجتماعية من الطراز الأول , حلوة إذا كنت فاضي جدا في سفرة إستجمام مثلا أو قبل النوم لأسلوبها السهل

أعيب على الرواية تفصيلها في الكثير من النواحي حتى الملل بعض المرات .. و يميزها حبكتها الطويلة

الرواية تقع في حوالي 960 صفحة من ورق نوع اليد

As The Crow Flies, first published in 1990.

This is a saga of the rags to riches life of Charlie Trumper. Not really a rags to riches story more the industrious boy from a working class back ground with big aspirations story.
The period of time is from the 1910’s to the 1960’s.
To say that Charlie’s life was colourful would be an understatement, from impoverished childhood with a fruit and vegetable barrow in the East End of London to the fields of France during the WW1. Then in WW2 he became Churchill’s go to man to keep the nation fed. Last but not least, his pride and joy ‘Trumper’s Department Store’.
Nothing in Charlie’s life would come easy. To succeed he will have to fight tooth and nail against a family of high social standing who is out to ruin Charlie hopes and aspiration at every turn.
Charlie’s life unfolds to us via all the principal characters. Each character tells the same basic story but from their pov. This sounds like it should be boring but strangely enough it wasn’t. I soon found myself becoming really invested in all Charlie’s trials and tribulations and infuriated by his enemies.

A satisfying, entertaining read and a must for lovers of family sagas.

A recommended 4 star read.

I'd rate it with 4 stars, but as it took me back to some British cities, their lifestyle and how they selll like in Sundays Markets, I definitely rates it with 5 stars. I've enjoyed most parts of it and read it with a smile drawn on my face especially when they talk in cockney or when i hear the words in Yorkshire accent.

However, i missed a great opportunity to read it along with a person who has a better background in history, world wars, and interest in documentary films. What even makes him perfect for this novel in particular is his finance knowledge and experience. In such a case, it "would" be the best novel i've read it so far.

A great, intrically woven family saga set in Britain. It begins with a man who is a vegetable peddler who has a dream to do and be more and it's the story of his life and the life of his family. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it.

I read this book for the first time when I was about 14. Since then I have flipped these pages at least twice more. It is one of those books that never lets me down.

It is rare for an 800 page book to hold your attention from start to finish. Archer is a master storyteller. The clarity of his thoughts is reflected in the ease with which the words flow on paper. In Charlie Trumper, the protagonist, Archer has fleshed out a character that will remain with you.

I don't do many fives. This may is not only a good writer but a great story teller. This is a long one but the story never gets slow and draggy.

CD book, read by Simon Prebble and Barbara Rosenblat (she does the Mamur Zapt stuff). Charlie Trumper is a fruit and vegetable man who rises to a better neighborhood, huge department store, and becomes a lord. It started out promising, but in the end it was just romantic drivel. I only listened to it because Simon Prebble was one of the readers, and I'll listen to pretty much anything he reads.

I have to admit that I simply could not finish this book. After getting well over half way through it, I decided that life is too short and there are too many truly good books out there to waste my time finishing this one. The book had potential but it became so formulaic that it was almost a joke. I could see the book in outline form: create a character who is inherently good; provide him with some adversity; have his relatives die; send him off to war; have him marry the perfect woman; provide them with adversity. The book is all action that is somewhat predictable. We as readers never really know what the characters think. Even though the action is told from the point of view of each major character, there is no psychological tension. The book is flat and one dimensional.

Depending on which browser I've opened to read this in (I do hate epub books and the Overdrive app that can never remember my login), I've made it to about 50% of this huge chunkster, so I'm counting this towards Mt. TBR of 2015 and the GR reading challenge. 400-500 pages is a full book in my world.

As far as I did get - the story begins around the latter years of WWI, and focused around a set of characters in the early years of building a financial empire starting with one store at a time - grocery is the first one. Usually I'd be all over a big fat saga like this, and usually I'd love all the details of the empire building, but this one fell flat for me. The biggest problem was the never-ending flip flop back to the same events, only to be recounted to the reader in another first person narrative from another character. B.O.R.I.N.G.

Life's too short, moving on.

My favorite book! Just finished AGAIN for the umpteenth time. Just adore it!