Books - What are you reading?
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Just got back from holiday and whilst there I read a 6 book series called "Arisen" which is basically about a zombie apocalypse. If you like such books, i'd thoroughly recommend this series as it's non-stop action from page 1 and through all 6 books. The seventh is currently being written.
Also just read Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo. It's No 2 in the Harry Hole series, which are simply brilliant. However, this one didn't quite live up to the rest (i've not read them in order) but still worth a read.
Also just read Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo. It's No 2 in the Harry Hole series, which are simply brilliant. However, this one didn't quite live up to the rest (i've not read them in order) but still worth a read.
Nezquick said:
Just got back from holiday and whilst there I read a 6 book series called "Arisen" which is basically about a zombie apocalypse. If you like such books, i'd thoroughly recommend this series as it's non-stop action from page 1 and through all 6 books. The seventh is currently being written.
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Like the sound of those and the first two are about £2.00 for the pair on my Kindle, so I'll give 'em a go!.
Finished Lynwood Barclay a tap on the window.
A good book and I'd recommend anyone to read it but I've read many other books with much much better endings.
Anyway now starting Lee Child Persuader. Picked up a very well used example from a charity shop
Anyone read this and have a rating?
A good book and I'd recommend anyone to read it but I've read many other books with much much better endings.
Anyway now starting Lee Child Persuader. Picked up a very well used example from a charity shop
Anyone read this and have a rating?
Have given reading a break for a while - WORK!!
But just last week picked up my Kindle and Simon Kernic trilogy "Dead Mans Gift" popped up.
No Idea why it was in three shorts? But got me going again.
So currently reading another Kernic "Stay Alive".
I do think he set an atmosphere in his work, well one I like!
Any others like his work?
But just last week picked up my Kindle and Simon Kernic trilogy "Dead Mans Gift" popped up.
No Idea why it was in three shorts? But got me going again.
So currently reading another Kernic "Stay Alive".
I do think he set an atmosphere in his work, well one I like!
Any others like his work?
silverthorn2151 said:
Nezquick said:
Just got back from holiday and whilst there I read a 6 book series called "Arisen" which is basically about a zombie apocalypse. If you like such books, i'd thoroughly recommend this series as it's non-stop action from page 1 and through all 6 books. The seventh is currently being written.
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Like the sound of those and the first two are about £2.00 for the pair on my Kindle, so I'll give 'em a go!.
droopsnoot said:
I've read a lot of Simin Kernick, he's a bit like Lynwood Barclay in the general structure but not bad for it. I think my most recent was "The Crime Trade".
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll start on them next.I do like catching up on a series of books that I have missed over the years
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Desiato said:
King Herald said:
Believe it or not, but I just picked up a copy of George Bests biography: Blessed, in the ships library. I scoffed at first, as I'm a total non-soccer fan, but thought I'd give it a go.
About 60 pages in and it is fairly interesting so far.
Funnily enough I read this a few years back, and like you as a completely non-football fan I really enjoyed the book.About 60 pages in and it is fairly interesting so far.
I assume he was like many people who start off poor and suddenly end up rolling in cash; they lose touch with reality, all the normal rules fall by the wayside and it all goes downhill from there.
Cameron Spence - All Necessary Measures
Description:
An excellent book from A Squadron trooper, Cameron Spence, telling his experiences as one of the SAS men deployed to Bosnia in the 90s.
Recommended for its detailed portrayal of operations in Maglai and Gorazde and the way it highlights the brutal reality of the Balkan conflict.
Not normally a big war book fan, most over glamorise conflicts, but this is more like a written documentary.
Description:
An excellent book from A Squadron trooper, Cameron Spence, telling his experiences as one of the SAS men deployed to Bosnia in the 90s.
Recommended for its detailed portrayal of operations in Maglai and Gorazde and the way it highlights the brutal reality of the Balkan conflict.
Not normally a big war book fan, most over glamorise conflicts, but this is more like a written documentary.
Welshbeef said:
Finished Lynwood Barclay a tap on the window.
A good book and I'd recommend anyone to read it but I've read many other books with much much better endings.
Anyway now starting Lee Child Persuader. Picked up a very well used example from a charity shop
Anyone read this and have a rating?
The thing about Lee Child is that his books are great brain-out fun, until you realise he's really not a great writer at all, at which point you lose any enjoyment you had.A good book and I'd recommend anyone to read it but I've read many other books with much much better endings.
Anyway now starting Lee Child Persuader. Picked up a very well used example from a charity shop
Anyone read this and have a rating?
Well, for me that was the case anyway.
I've just finished "Moonlight Mile" by Dennis Lehane, that was very good, well written and easy to read, and there's a series about the two PIs Kenzie and Gennaro. I'm now part-way through another Harlan Coben, "Six Years", though it's quite familiar in structure to at least one of his other books it's still pretty good.
TheJimi said:
The thing about Lee Child is that his books are great brain-out fun, until you realise he's really not a great writer at all, at which point you lose any enjoyment you had.
Well, for me that was the case anyway.
I differ a little from that. You can tell within a couple of pages that he is a truly terrible writer and that his characters and storyline are clichéd and the general believability is embarrassing.Well, for me that was the case anyway.
However, as long as you read it accepting those facts - he does write a good easy reading page turner. There a few better authors for enjoying a book without having to put a single ounce of thought or effort in.
blindswelledrat said:
I differ a little from that. You can tell within a couple of pages that he is a truly terrible writer and that his characters and storyline are clichéd and the general believability is embarrassing.
However, as long as you read it accepting those facts - he does write a good easy reading page turner. There a few better authors for enjoying a book without having to put a single ounce of thought or effort in.
Oh aye, of course, you can tell pretty much straight away that he's a crap writer, but at first, as you say, you gloss over that.However, as long as you read it accepting those facts - he does write a good easy reading page turner. There a few better authors for enjoying a book without having to put a single ounce of thought or effort in.
Eventually tho, it really does start to grate and ruins any enjoyment out of reading his yarns.
My current page-turning fodder is The Dresden Files books, by Jim Butcher. Daft, but great fun, and his writing is pretty decent too.
TheJimi said:
The thing about Lee Child is that his books are great brain-out fun, until you realise he's really not a great writer at all, at which point you lose any enjoyment you had.
Well, for me that was the case anyway.
Its easy reading I'm working my way through the series but I do one of his then two or three another then back to Lee Child. Well, for me that was the case anyway.
I've the entire series of Mo Hayden (untouched apart from Hanging hill - superb) and the entire series Jo Nesbo ( The leopard - superb) and spattering a of many other authors which I seem to be picking up at a faster rate than I read them in the book shelf. Thing is deciding what to read next is always fun choosing but after a heavy book some Reacher is a nice but of light relief.
Just finished Nevile Shute's "A Town Like Alice". Not at all what I was expecting but absolutely loved it. Got it because I loved "On the beach" but reading the synopsis on the cover wasn't too sure it was going to be my thing, couldn't have been more wrong though. Need to read some more of his books now, any reccomendations?
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