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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Are any of the other stories in the omnibus any better then Thirty-Nine Steps? I found that one to be rather dull overall and a bit silly in spots too.
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Try the second, _Greenmantle_. Richard Hannay is recruited by the chap from Intelligence in _The 39 Steps_ for a secret mission on the Turkish front in the middle east, where something is happening among the Muslims.
If you found _The 39 Steps_ "dull", you may not like it, as _The 39 Steps_ moves along at a rather breakneck pace once you get into it, and the "silliness" is mostly a matter of unlikely occurrences and being set in a time with values and standards rather unlike our own.
If _Greenmantle_ doesn't do it for you, drop John Buchan from your reading list, as you just won't get what he does.
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Dennis