You're totally right on the con thing- it's so great to see them unravel. It's funny that immediately after I was done watching How to Steal A Million I wanted to watch The Thomas Crown Affair, too. (Granted, I've only seen the remake, but I do enjoy it so.) Instead I went for White Collar episodes, which was equally fun.
For a future rec, I highly recommend The Brothers Bloom. Older conman brother ropes the reluctant younger one into pulling One Last Job on a a rich heiress who is so bored she collects hobbies and accidentally keeps wrecking her sports cars. Also featuring a silent explosives expert and a probably-not-really-Belgian. More on the caper and con side than heist, but still good fun.
Brothers Bloom was excellent. Really excellent. I adored the trixy older brother so much. (Which, considering my adoration for Adrien Brody I think really says something about scene stealing). I kept waiting for him and the explosives expert to make-out. But Stephen was far to worried about his brother's romantic fate to care about his own. The cunning bastard
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Also, I was way too proud of myself for reading Soulless because it was not a children's or YA novel. Not that there is anything wrong with that (so long as you're reading the right ones (and I get recommended all the right ones)), but it seems to be such a rarity for me nowadays.
I am ridiculously proud of myself for reading a nonfiction book...about art thievery. But still, nonfiction. Written by a journalist who got carried away doing a profile piece.
Gaiman said, of course reality is stranger than fiction, real life doesn't have to be plausible, fiction does. This book is introducing me to all sorts of shady characters, art history lessons, and eyepatch false nose wearing art detectives. More later.
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For a future rec, I highly recommend The Brothers Bloom. Older conman brother ropes the reluctant younger one into pulling One Last Job on a a rich heiress who is so bored she collects hobbies and accidentally keeps wrecking her sports cars. Also featuring a silent explosives expert and a probably-not-really-Belgian. More on the caper and con side than heist, but still good fun.
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Gaiman said, of course reality is stranger than fiction, real life doesn't have to be plausible, fiction does. This book is introducing me to all sorts of shady characters, art history lessons, and eyepatch false nose wearing art detectives. More later.
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