The Third Man Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Eh. Harry Lime is dead. Or is he? Well, no, he's not actually dead yet, he just faked his own death to escape arrest for racketeering. But he will die. Graham Greene gives all the spoilers in the forward, so all you have to do is wait for Harry Lime to be dead, then not dead, then really dead, while trying to keep track of Lime's shifty, international crowd of co-racketeers and his bumbling, misogynist school chum who's come for a visit. I read this because I enjoyed the description a scene in Pierre Bayard's wonderful How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read. Read that book, and imagine that the rest of the book lives up to the one comic scene described therein. "

" Don't get me wrong, The Third Man is a great movie and Graham Greene is a great author, but this really does read like a half-finished treatment. Which I guess it was. "

" Rather thin story, but the dark symbolism of the movie is all there. "

" La lectura se me hizo un poco dificil ya que a mi parecer la trama se desarrolla lentamente, razon por la cual la cadencia se vuelve tediosa. Quiza sea debido a que, como bien dice la introdiccion, es una novela que esta escrita para ser pelicula, no tanto para leerse. "

" As this is one of my favourite movies, I wanted to read the original and it is quite good.The only problem being ,I kept seeing scenes from the film in my head as I was reading and kept hearing the famous zither soundtrack as well.Definitely worth reading for any who enjoy mysteries and for those who have read it, watch the movie. You will not be disappointed. "

" It really shows that this was written to be a movie. I can see how it'd make a wonderful film, but as a novella it seems ... lacking, and definitely not up to the quality of Greene's other writings. It did however make me curious about seeing "The Third Man". "

" A slight tale told with Greene's typical precision. However, I did find the authorial intrusion irritating at times. "

" Love Greene. Love the way it truly evoked post-war Austria, and the nascent cold war. "

" Short but well-crafted. "

" Classic noir thriller works much better on screen than as a book. It is too short to get in to its characters' heads in any depth, and hence seems much more like a cheap thriller than a true psychological novel. "

" Sacrilege, maybe, but once you hear Orson Welles's whistling, it's hard to go back to the original. "

" The atmosphere of Vienna is captured in the Graham Greene novel . "

" Mystery/noir doesn't get any better than this; uneasy, dark, and sexy, you won't be able to put it down until you are done. And for your own salvation--see the Orson Wells film before you get any older. "

" This is imperfect, though still pretty good, but the movie is perfect. "

" A rare case where the movie is actually better. Not that the book isn't good, but Wells just took the whole thing to the next level. "

" I have watched way too many movies to be thrilled about the climax but i liked the narration technique =) "

" Doesn't quite stand up to the movie it would go on to become, but still definitely worth reading. It helps if you think of it as a film treatment instead of a novel (which it basically is). "

" Maybe you have to hear it. Reading the script disappointed me. "

" The movie was better. Seriously. A lot better. "

" Divertida, intensa, Una novela escrita con sencillez y claridad. Greene nos pone en una Viena destrozada de finales de la segunda guerra mundial y vemos un mundo de intriga, decepciones y misterio. Una novela negra perfecta para el fin de semana "

" Classic noir thriller works much better on screen than as a book. It is too short to get in to its characters' heads in any depth, and hence seems much more like a cheap thriller than a true psychological novel. "

" Love Greene. Love the way it truly evoked post-war Austria, and the nascent cold war. "

" Classic suspense mixed with sophisticated humor from a master of the medium. "

" The movie was better. Seriously. A lot better. "

" Grahame Green wrote this novella in preparation for writing the screen play. "

" Don't get me wrong, The Third Man is a great movie and Graham Greene is a great author, but this really does read like a half-finished treatment. Which I guess it was. "

" AH, my first book by graham greene. There isnt much, its another short book. Finished in couple of hours.picking these books from guardian list,Cant see why, these books are on that, list, "