wadau mnakumbuka mambo ya mark garland na wengineo? tatizo dogo wa siku hizi hawasomi viendeleza kiinglishi hivi.... ukiuliza unaambiwa siku hizi mambo kwenye mstari na ipod... wadau mnakumbuka mambo ya mark garland na wengineo? tatizo dogo wa siku hizi hawasomi viendeleza kiinglishi hivi.... ukiuliza unaambiwa siku hizi mambo kwenye mstari na ipod...
Kaka Michu umenikumbusha mbali sana. Tukiwa sekondari tulikuw na ushindani wa nani kasoma chase ngapi!! Tena umenivunja mbavu na usemi wako wa kizazi cha sasa ati wanakuwa mstari(online). Kuna haja ya wakufunzi na jamii nzima kuanzia na wazazi kusisitiza kwa kizazi kimpya umuhimu wa kusoma vitabu. Wanakosa fani moja muhimu kweli kweli!
ReplyDeleteAisee umenikumbusha Mtu wangu,
ReplyDeleteKuna Mtu wangu mmoja anaitwa Sadiki Onga alikuaga nazo kama 30 hivi na nilizipiga mpaka sasa English haiko tatizo kwangu utafikiri nimesoma FM Academy,
Sema tu jamaa sasa yuko Algeria hivyo nimepunguza kuzisoma.
Pia anaitwa Mark Girgland na sio kama ulivyoandika.
Kama vipi Poa
Jamaa, we pia mkono umeteleza! ni MARK GIRLAND. kweli Michuzi umetukumbusha mbali sana. Mambo ya akina:
ReplyDeleteTOM LEPSKI
JANINE DAULNAY
DON MICKLEM
MA GRISSOM na wengineo kwenye 'vigongo' kama:
I WILL BURY MY OWN DEAD
THE WORLD IN MY POCKET
MAKE THE CORPSE WALK
MISSION TO SIENA / VIENA
THIS IS FOR REAL
NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH
truly, those were the days....!
Michu,
ReplyDeleteAre those books really genuine? I mean the original ones?, they look so new to be the original ones bearing in mind they are not published anymore. Seems like they are pirate copies, but still you can enjoy the stories regardless, how much are they??? My fave Chase is "This Way For A Shroud"
With an old friend of mine - George Alexco Karras - a Greek demi-god from Musoma we scanned through them all. And what a cheap way to simulate "watchting" action and thriller movies at the comfort of our beds.
ReplyDeleteLike a Hole in the Head was my first and then many followed: The way the Cookie Crumbles, One Bright Summer Morning, This way for a Shroud, No orchids for Miss Blandish and many, many more. By George's reckoning, we did them all - in excess of 100 only that he preferred Panther rather than Corgi publications.
The game spanned the period of our early teenage - mid and late '70's and ended only when I was mature enough to realise that they were simplistic and at that time the only place you could get them was on the street pavements.
Yes, as someone rightly said, they did boost our vocabularly and grammar. I last heard of George as being in Mpanda - over 15 years ago. Anybody knows this guy?
Yeah, ahsante aisee.
ReplyDeleteA wiph of money
Hit and Run
Have this one on me
zile za akina Smanorff, Buckerman, na yule Mrusi Jambazi mwenye nywele nyeupe nimemsahau kidogo.
Yeah, ahsante aisee.
ReplyDeleteA wiph of money
Hit and Run
Have this one on me
zile za akina Smanorff, Buckerman, na yule Mrusi Jambazi mwenye nywele nyeupe nimemsahau kidogo.
THE GUILTY ARE ALWAYS AFRAID
ReplyDeleteONE BRIGHT SUMMER MORNING
THE WARY TANSGRESSOR
COME EASY GO EASY....
Nimevisoma vyoote! Nilipokuwa Secondary School form one(1970) mfuko wa kaptula yangu ya uniform ulishonwa especially for specification za novels hizo. Je mnajua kuwa mwandishi James Hadley Chase sio Mmarekani, bali ni Muingereza, na jina lake sio hilo...?
Nimeingia form one Kilimanjaro Boys nikiwa msomaji mzuri tu wa novel. Sasa nilikuwa nasoma the next Robert Ludlum novel I laid my hands on, "The Holcroft Covenant", after being extremely impressed with the first Ludlum novel I read, "The Bourne Identity" (arguably my favorite book ever!)
ReplyDeleteKwanza ile prejudice ya kwamba "wewe form one unajidai unajua inglish kwa kuoma Chase, eh?" Nikamjibu form 3 huyo "no, sio najifanya kusoma inglishi ni kwamba najua kusoma sana inglishi. Isitoshe, hiki sio Chase ni Ludlum" Akasema "unaona sasa hujui hata unachosoma ni nini, hiyo ni Chase bwana, wewe form 1 hujui tu!" Nikasema ok ili nisiendelee kubishana nae manake enzi zile Kili Boys shule ya watemi!
Mnakumbuka kile kitabu cha "Roho Mkononi" cha Hamie Rajabu? I am positive it is the same book by Chase "Beleive this and you'll beleive anything" but different settings.