Talk:Between Silk and Cyanide

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This reads like a review[edit]

This reads like a review. I imagine there's a template for the occasion, but I'm not aware of it. Tophtucker (talk) 06:40, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've subdued a lot of the connotation ands essay tools e.g. emotive wording which peppered this article now.- Adam37 Talk 20:21, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

copyvio[edit]

It reads like a review (per above) because a bunch of text from an Amazon review[1] was pasted in 2006[2] and the rest of the article text was written around that. I just reverted to the stub-like version from before the review was pasted, in order to get rid of the copyvio. It should be possible to rebuild the article by carefully separating any Amazon-derived text from the last version in the article history. Alternatively the article could just be rewritten from scratch. 67.119.3.248 (talk) 03:27, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

war story[edit]

Is the subtitle A Codemaker's Story as in the article title or A Codemaker's War as in the body? —Tamfang (talk) 23:41, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Humour reception[edit]

The book provides an excellent example of dry wit, which might be described as 'British humour'. I'm curious to know how this humour went down with readers of other nationalities. Anyone know, or wish to write a paragraph or two about it? FreeFlow99 (talk) 10:16, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would have said gallows humour would be the more international term. British humour fluxes and is diverse. This is, alas, not the place for OPINIONSs on humour, in general, above all for a book which does not purport to be a humour book. This having been said if enough critics savour it for certain humour styles or anecdotes then I am sure a cited mention or two of review coupled with line would not be objected to by wikipedia's policy on This is not an Editorial and similar allied policies.- Adam37 Talk 20:26, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

an alike role[edit]

agents working with or in an alike role as the Dutch resistance

This looks like a translation. Does it mean "in or with the D.r."? —Tamfang (talk) 19:59, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]