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	• The Gun Seller Hugh Laurie Washington Square Press, 1998 - 339 pages average customer review:based on 142 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Buy one for yourself, and some as gifts. This is a smart, witty books. Laurie writes the way he talks. Fun book!!!

AMazing

I have been a fan of Hugh Laurie since the first time I saw Fry and Laurie on TV. I watch HOUSE all the time and If I didnt know he had written The Gun Seller I wouldn't have believed it. It has charm, wit, murder,and what I think might be a love story. You get a touch of everything. It took me a few hours to really get into it because of the language barrier,but I would reccomend this to everyone. I am totally and completely enjoying it,and I will get and read his other books

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Great Entertainment!

Dry humor, witty remarks, and a bit of sarcasm, written in first person by the man we all now know as House. For me, the actual plot - which is sort of a spy thriller; part serious, part satire - was secondary to the writing and the characters. I didn't particularly care what they were doing. I just loved reading his words. His characters are vivid and unique. He has a true gift for writing dialogue and even his narrative sucked me in and held me in place.

In all fairness, however, I must admit that the plot was at times convoluted in such a way that it could be difficult to follow. I think, in Laurie's effort to bring suspense to the story, he sometimes leaves the reader dangling in the wind. However, the entertainment value of his writing style carried me through any little rough spots in the plot.

When I turned the last page, I was sad to say goodbye to the characters. Thomas Lang, Laurie's main character, wants to live on in my mind. And, for me, that's the mark of a great story.

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A Post-Housian Review of a Pre-Housian Novel

I am 14 years late with this review of Hugh Laurie's clever and funny spy thriller, The Gun Seller. My excuse is that I just started and finished reading it this weekend.

Did you ever wonder what House did before he became a doctor or even a TV doctor? Well clearly he was Thomas Lang, rumpled former officer in the Scots Guards, counter-terrorist operative and gentle, chain smoking tough guy. The book's dialogue oozes the cutting wit and self-deprecating self-awareness, self-destructiveness and self-centeredness of the good doctor in the TV series. Presciently, Thomas spends the last quarter of the book speaking with a vaguely Minnesotan accent in order to persuade a bunch of terrorists-for-hire that he is one of them. I cannot tell whether I am reading House into the pre-Housian novel or Hugh Laurie has successfully embedded his novel's dialogue into the television scripts. There is also more than a smidgen of Black Adder and Monty Python floating about. It is all highly amusing.

As suggested by the dust jacket art, the book is really a graphic novel without the pictures. With plenty of action, clichés, beautiful women and rather unpleasantly evil bad guys, the plot manically twists, jumps and leaps. The abiding persona of Hugh Laurie, aka Gregory House and aka Thomas Lang holds it together. I suspect multi-talented Mr. Laurie simply wrote up one of his day dreams. The absence of a second novel suggests that Mr Laurie has been too busy to day dream.

The novel would make an interesting movie or TV thriller - with a buffed-up Stephen Frye playing the stoic and wise Solomon, Thomas Lang's Guardian Angel in a raincoat, John Cleese playing the worthless intelligence bureaucrat O'Neill, Kevin Kline playing the evil rogue CIA agent, Mr. Russell P. Barnes and Rowan Atkinson playing the vile gun running arms dealer psychopath, Murdah. Preparing for this role should add years to Stephen's life! What better gift could his pal Hugh give him? Hugh Laurie, of course, would have to play his alter ego, Thomas Lang.

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Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.

Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.

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