Books - What are you reading?
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s p a c e m a n said:
The Hypno-Toad said:
Just finished or rather devoured, Gone Girl.
Brilliant. Totally lives up to the hype. The last page sent shivers down my spine.
Brilliant. Totally lives up to the hype. The last page sent shivers down my spine.
Ta for that, it's been ages since I've read a book that fast. Got about a third of the way through it and then became totally hooked, was like I was cheering on a football team at one point.
Now reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. So far so good but not far in yet.
I may have already replied to this post, but hey, I have read more than one book since!
I have read.....again....
The Missing Other by S B Carter,
and have just started reading the second book in this series...called,
The Room Next Door.
I must say, both are very good! I stumbled upon the first, and the synopsis really interested me....So I bought the Kindle version! I was really pleased to see that the author had released a second book....Promptly bought that too! So I will leave feedback for them both, once I have finished the second, as the number of reviews ain't exactly high!....such a shame for such good books!!
I have read.....again....
The Missing Other by S B Carter,
and have just started reading the second book in this series...called,
The Room Next Door.
I must say, both are very good! I stumbled upon the first, and the synopsis really interested me....So I bought the Kindle version! I was really pleased to see that the author had released a second book....Promptly bought that too! So I will leave feedback for them both, once I have finished the second, as the number of reviews ain't exactly high!....such a shame for such good books!!
I've just finished 'Vessel' a book by one of our own PH members. Well worth a read and free on his blog I bevel. It is sort of semi science fiction, aliens, space station, thriller, drama style.
Also another he has written, Noah's Ark, an end-of-world scenarios I believe, but I haven't started it yet.
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Also another he has written, Noah's Ark, an end-of-world scenarios I believe, but I haven't started it yet.
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Nom de ploom said:
as a break from non fiction I downloaded the audio book of the girl who played with fire about 20 pages in I reckon, ok so far nothing much happening.
Great book. This one and 'Hornet's Nest' are totally different to the first book, I enjoyed them much more, especially the last one.Alapeno said:
It was fairly average to me but can't exactly put my finger on why. Maybe, without meaning to sound sexist, it's the fact I could really tell it was written by a woman and the writing style grated on me a lot. Also the second half fell pretty flat as I was waiting for a decent ending that never came. Unless I missed something?
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I said exactly the same a few pages ago..
The first 100 pages of the book was nothing more than a book about relationships and cleverish observations on marriage.
If I wanted to read that I would buy a woman's book and not what is supposedly a thriller.
I read a lot and have noticed that 3 in 5 books by a man I will really enjoy and about 1 in 8 books by a woman I will enjoy,, even if they are supposedly not based on a feminine subject.
For this reason I simply don't read books by women any more as the odds are too much against it. I only read this because of the glowing reviews and I thought it may be one of those 1 in 8's but it wasn't.
Just finished
Operation Mincemeat
And
Agent Zigzag
Both by Ben Macintyre - excellent accounts of ww2 deceptions, spys and the double cross system.
Amazing how much the war was run by such a small team of people. Extremely intelligent and characterful people from all walks of life where war brought out the best in them.
Strongly recommend.
Operation Mincemeat
And
Agent Zigzag
Both by Ben Macintyre - excellent accounts of ww2 deceptions, spys and the double cross system.
Amazing how much the war was run by such a small team of people. Extremely intelligent and characterful people from all walks of life where war brought out the best in them.
Strongly recommend.
blindswelledrat said:
Alapeno said:
It was fairly average to me but can't exactly put my finger on why. Maybe, without meaning to sound sexist, it's the fact I could really tell it was written by a woman and the writing style grated on me a lot. Also the second half fell pretty flat as I was waiting for a decent ending that never came. Unless I missed something?
.
I said exactly the same a few pages ago..
The first 100 pages of the book was nothing more than a book about relationships and cleverish observations on marriage.
If I wanted to read that I would buy a woman's book and not what is supposedly a thriller.
I read a lot and have noticed that 3 in 5 books by a man I will really enjoy and about 1 in 8 books by a woman I will enjoy,, even if they are supposedly not based on a feminine subject.
For this reason I simply don't read books by women any more as the odds are too much against it. I only read this because of the glowing reviews and I thought it may be one of those 1 in 8's but it wasn't.
Talking of which I read The Wasp Factory last week, what the f
k was that all about? It was just the ramblings of a mad man with some good one liners in it, did Homer Simpsons grandpa write that? s p a c e m a n said:
Talking of which I read The Wasp Factory last week, what the fk was that all about? It was just the ramblings of a mad man with some good one liners in it, did Homer Simpsons grandpa write that?
I wasn't sure what all the fuss was about either. I thought it was a very well written and brilliantly atmospheric/bleak but ultimately a bit dullk was that all about? It was just the ramblings of a mad man with some good one liners in it, did Homer Simpsons grandpa write that? Legend83 said:
blindswelledrat said:
I wasn't sure what all the fuss was about either. I thought it was a very well written and brilliantly atmospheric/bleak but ultimately a bit dull
Agree but worth persevering with for the big reveal.
I cant even remember the big reveal so naturally I shall beg to differStuart McBride's 'A Song For The Dying'.
Eight years ago, 'The inside man' murdered four women and left three more in a critical condition - all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside.
And then the killer just disappeared.
Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation(Birthdays For The Dead) but a lot can change in eight years. His family has been destroyed, his career is in tatters, and one of Oldcastle's most vicious criminals is making sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.
Now a nurse has turned up dead on a patch of waste ground, a plastic doll buried beneath her skin, and it looks as if Ash might finally get a shot at redemption. At earning his freedom.
At revenge.
A 'belter of a book and well worth a read IMO.
Eight years ago, 'The inside man' murdered four women and left three more in a critical condition - all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside.
And then the killer just disappeared.
Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation(Birthdays For The Dead) but a lot can change in eight years. His family has been destroyed, his career is in tatters, and one of Oldcastle's most vicious criminals is making sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.
Now a nurse has turned up dead on a patch of waste ground, a plastic doll buried beneath her skin, and it looks as if Ash might finally get a shot at redemption. At earning his freedom.
At revenge.
A 'belter of a book and well worth a read IMO.
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