http://boingboing.net/2013/01/23/helen-macinnes-classic-1941.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 08:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/23/helen-macinnes-classic-1941.html#comment-1635582 Bruce Keeler Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207797#comment-1635582 "Sporting his Oak", eh?  So that's the Oxford euphemism is it? “Sporting his Oak”, eh?  So that’s the Oxford euphemism is it?

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/23/helen-macinnes-classic-1941.html#comment-1635500 mmmwright Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207797#comment-1635500 Above Suspicion was my mother's favorite book - I still have her copy and, like snailspace, I just assumed that my life would be like MacInnes or Stewart wrote it!  Spies! Thrills! Romance! Above Suspicion was my mother’s favorite book – I still have her copy and, like snailspace, I just assumed that my life would be like MacInnes or Stewart wrote it!  Spies! Thrills! Romance!

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/23/helen-macinnes-classic-1941.html#comment-1635324 Fef Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207797#comment-1635324 Excellent. Now who's gonna start marketing the "Who Is Peter Galt?" merchandise? Excellent.
Now who’s gonna start marketing the “Who Is Peter Galt?” merchandise?

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/23/helen-macinnes-classic-1941.html#comment-1635302 snailspace Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207797#comment-1635302 My parents had a lot of Helen MacInnes's books in the house when I was growing up; the anti-Communist speeches seemed a bit shoehorned into some of them, but they were always great thrillers.  When I got to be an adult, I was a bit disappointed my life didn't sweep into great exciting races and chases and spying and escapades in beautiful foreign locales like in MacInnes's books, or Mary Stewart's. My parents had a lot of Helen MacInnes’s books in the house when I was growing up; the anti-Communist speeches seemed a bit shoehorned into some of them, but they were always great thrillers.  When I got to be an adult, I was a bit disappointed my life didn’t sweep into great exciting races and chases and spying and escapades in beautiful foreign locales like in MacInnes’s books, or Mary Stewart’s.

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