REVIEW: Thank You For Smoking

Title: Thank You For Smoking
Author: Christopher Buckley
Finished: June 20, 2010
Pages: 272
Published: 1994
Format: paperback

Adapted to film a couple years ago, Thank You For Smoking, is about Nick Naylor, vice president and lobbyist for tobacco industry who suddenly finds himself under the bright and accusatory stares of the world as he tries to increase spending on cigarettes while promoting safe living and health.

I saw this movie last year, and vaguely remembered the storyline. It was very interesting to read the actual story, many things different in the book than the movie.

Nick spends his days promoting smoking, spending money on advertising for and against smoking, carrying on a secret affair with a reporter who uses his private words and their secret conversations for her own gain. His friends all stand by him, each of them working and lobbying for their own controversial company. It’s not long before he finds himself in a life threatening situation that leaves him wondering for the first time ever if smoking is really something he wants to be standing behind.

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REVIEW: F is for Fugitive

Title: F is for Fugitive
Author: Sue Grafton
Finished: June 19, 2010
Pages: 307
Published: 1989
Format: paperback

The sixth Kinsey book is all about determining innocence or guilt when Kinsey is hired to solve a murder that took place 17 years ago, when a teenage girl was killed and her boyfriend was accused and found guilty of her murder.

But everything’s changed now what he’s escaped from prison and went on the run, hoping to clear his name before anything bad happens.

Kinsey is hired by the family to find out the truth of what happens, living in their hotel for free, but as she begins to dig into their history and the town, she finds everything is not as it seems and there are more secrets than ever being kept.

It was a very interesting read and I was very intrigued to get to the end and find out who the actual killer and such was. The books are getting better and I’m looking forward to playing catch up even more with the series.

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