tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post111140344177246340..comments2024-03-27T07:25:07.401+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Ken Follett: Hornet FlightMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-87832716900845944652023-04-16T17:44:53.609+01:002023-04-16T17:44:53.609+01:00Hi Michael Allen. What you find too unrealistic ab...Hi Michael Allen. What you find too unrealistic about refuling the aircraft by climing on to the wings during the flight in darkness above the North Sea is actually 100% correct. I have it first hand from the deceased Svend Truelsen, for whom my mom Karen Skovgaard Christensen worked as a secretary after WWII. Svend Truelsen was an exceptional person who was part of the resistance and highly contributing to the information intelligence services in Denmark during the WWII. Svend fled to UK and became an officer in the UK RAF. So, the Hornet Flight is actually very realistic and, although unbelievable when reading a novel, even true. Some People are made of something Special and stands out like very very few people with charisma, will to action and gutts. I agree it is hard to believe, but it is true. Best regards, Michael SkovgaardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-67039650675630881682021-09-26T00:22:30.521+01:002021-09-26T00:22:30.521+01:00I found a few flops and I am half way through the ...I found a few flops and I am half way through the book. A car operating on charcoal !!! KF's researcher was surely inspired by BBQ... the cars had generators to produce flammable gas from wood (Holzgas) and charcoal was the residue of the process. Also flying from Scotland to Stockholm in 3 hrs? How if Norway was German occupied. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16855944044386339407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-62447851124104532032020-01-09T16:36:50.225+00:002020-01-09T16:36:50.225+00:00I realize this is years after the fact, but let...I realize this is years after the fact, but let's see if a comment can be posted. :-)<br /><br />You mention Follett creating problems for the hero and heroine (really all the people we are sympathetic to). Absolutely formulaic, a lot of authors do it because it works.<br /><br />Thing is, in the earlier stages of the book it absolutely stretches credulity that Peter Flemming and some of the other police are so effective and so inspired. To suddenly guess that the wheel chocks for a plane should be examined? Come on. Most everything that follows after is highly tenuous too, so much so that the reader is aware all the time that in the real world the police and counter-intelligence would have been blithely unaware of what was going on.<br /><br />Ruined the enjoyment of the book for me.ArvedHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00528221198557232153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-52525050486539939632008-02-03T06:49:00.000+00:002008-02-03T06:49:00.000+00:00could you please name and describe some of the pro...could you please name and describe some of the problems they had because that would help me because im doing a research on the book and i want to make sure that all my points on the main ideas in the story are correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com