Talk:Piece of Cake (novel)

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Anyone who's interested, please add some more to the pages for A Good Clean Fight and Damned Good Show!--Pooneil (talk) 00:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This stub needs a reference section with inline refs. The reference section will allow the standard cite format for which is mostly in the info box. Adding an ISBN number would also help. Where did the trivia come from? Please cite. Is there web pages that cite this book? All of these can be used as references for this article. Enfermero (talk) 21:17, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reception

The reception section is devoted to a negative review. Are there any positive responses to balance it out?--NimRenouf (talk) 18:17, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reading it again, the review is grudgingly positive. I can supply numerous quotes and endorsements from dust jackets, but nothing specific that I can cite for this or any of Robinson's other novels.NimRenouf (talk) 19:11, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hatch

"In the novel, the character of Moggy Cattermole is pursuing a mortally damaged German bomber and he notices that one of the Luftwaffe crewmen has become hopelessly stuck in the escape hatch beneath the aircraft, his legs dangling in mid-air. Knowing the horrific fate that will befall the man when the bomber hits the water, Cattermole decides to put him out of his misery and shoots him dead." The article goes on to draw a parallel with an RAF pilot shooting a German airman who is adrift at sea. But this exact same real-life incident is described in... frustratingly I can't remember the title, but it was either First Light or Fighter Boys or something along those lines. Either the novel drew from a published account of this incident, or (perhaps) the latter have false memories. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 20:32, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone who's actually read the book would know, in any case, that Cattermole didn't kill the man to spare him a horrible fate. He killed him because he could. Fahrenheit666 (talk) 18:33, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]