Books - What are you reading?

[Welshbeef]

Just started Mo Hayder "Birdman" so far 50 odd pages in and it's a cracker.

[Nom de ploom]

finished Girl with a Clock for a Heart - read it pretty quickly as it wasn't too cerebral.

a decent enough yarn spoiled imho by a pathetic final chapter...

[Chris Type R]

havoc said:

Chris Hatfield - thanks - will give that a go. Already read Mullane's "Riding Rockets" and liked that...

It's Chris Hadfield

[wombleh]

Patch1875 said:

Not long started but really enjoying.

An Astronauts Guide to life on Earth by Chris Hatfield.

Edited by Patch1875 on Sunday 21st February 17:33

Saw him give a talk in Oxford and was fantastic, highly recommend if he's anywhere near you. The guy has a great outlook on life, very inspiring. Bought the book straight after and enjoyed it a lot.

[jbudgie]

Nom de ploom said:

finished Girl with a Clock for a Heart - read it pretty quickly as it wasn't too cerebral.

a decent enough yarn spoiled imho by a pathetic final chapter...

Same thoughts as you really about this book.

[Tony Angelino]

droopsnoot said:

Tony Angelino said:

http://www.peterjames.com/book/dead-simple




Just starting this, first of the series. Decent enough so far, enjoying it.

I've enjoyed all of them. Generally not essential to read them in order, with the exception of the background story that doesn't really intrude much.

Eventually got through it, really enjoyed it apart from the last bit when he used the Medium.... Kind of spoilt it for me that. Hopefully that's not a recurring theme in them but will crack on with the next one after my new Linda La Plante: Wrongful Death.

[marcosgt]

Nom de ploom said:

finished Girl with a Clock for a Heart - read it pretty quickly as it wasn't too cerebral.

a decent enough yarn spoiled imho by a pathetic final chapter...

Is it a Stephen King?

M.

[droopsnoot]

Tony Angelino said:

Eventually got through it, really enjoyed it apart from the last bit when he used the Medium.... Kind of spoilt it for me that. Hopefully that's not a recurring theme in them but will crack on with the next one after my new Linda La Plante: Wrongful Death.

No, I don't think that crops up very often. It's that long since I read that one that I'd forgotten it happened in there as well. There's another author I've read recently (James Oswald) whose did the same in his first one, but the rest was good enough to gloss over it. Not like some of the John Connolly books that combine detectives and spirits (not that kind...) a bit too much for me.

[droopsnoot]

I've been going through a pile recently - "Damaged" by Simon Conway wasn't terrible, but if I'd realised it had so much flashback in it I probably wouldn't have bothered - a bit drug dealer, a bit Northern Ireland. "Eeny Meeny" by M J Arlidge was pretty good, someone keeps kidnapping pairs of people and their only way out is for one to kill the other. "Long Gone" by Alafair Burke was pretty good too. None that made me want to search for more by the same. Currently on "Singing to the dead" by Caro Ramsay, good so far.

[SilverSixer]

Just finished "All Involved" by Ryan Gattis. Fiction based on the LA riots of 1992. A very compelling read.

[jbudgie]

marcosgt said:

Nom de ploom said:

finished Girl with a Clock for a Heart - read it pretty quickly as it wasn't too cerebral.

a decent enough yarn spoiled imho by a pathetic final chapter...

Is it a Stephen King?

M.

Peter Swanson.

[epom]

Currently digesting this....

[Shadow R1]

epom said:

Currently digesting this....

I liked that.

[Slyjoe]

TheJimi said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Anyone read 'Tuesday Falling'?

Picked up as a freebie on Kindle last night and read it in a sitting.

Not my usual fare, but absolutely loved it.

Back up to 99p now, but undoubtedly worth paying for. I've read several hundred free books on Kindle and this is easily the best. Helped by the fact it's published by Harper Collins so has pro editing and proofing, but it's also bloody good, in a cartoonish yet noir kind of way.

If you like dragon tattoo, Kickass or just London, I strongly urge you give it a go.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuesday-Falling-S-Williams...

Picked this up on kindle, after your recommendation.

Just finished it at lunchtime. Very entertaining.

Makes Lisbeth Salander look a bit limp by comparison!

Edited by TheJimi on Friday 26th February 15:46

Currently enjoying this - only downside is there does not appear to be a second book to follow yet.

[TheJimi]

epom said:

Currently digesting this....

Thanks for the heads up :-)

[LordGrover]

Harry Bosch books £1.99 in kindle store today only; Amazon.co.uk.

[Patch1875]

wombleh said:

Patch1875 said:

Not long started but really enjoying.

An Astronauts Guide to life on Earth by Chris Hatfield.

Edited by Patch1875 on Sunday 21st February 17:33

Saw him give a talk in Oxford and was fantastic, highly recommend if he's anywhere near you. The guy has a great outlook on life, very inspiring. Bought the book straight after and enjoyed it a lot.

Missed him in Edinburgh due to holidays :-( hopefully he will be back at some point.

I got the photo book last year as he visited RBS HQ my wife used to work there.

[droopsnoot]

I've just finished "Say you're sorry" by Michael Robotham, which was very good. From one or two things in the book I think I've read another of his, but can't remember which one.

[DoctorX]

Coffin Road by Peter May. Enjoyed his Hebridean trilogy and this new one set in the same location is a good read so far.

[Don]

Don said:

So far it is, undoubtedly, the most "WTF" book I have read in the last five years. This not in a good way, I fear.

The characters are all extraordinarily unlikeable. (Deliberate, I think...)

I bought it as I quite enjoyed the movie "Cloud Atlas" based on Mitchell's book of the same name. I'll read it to the end before final judgement but it isn't looking good.

Got to the end of this yesterday. It did get better but the ending was an anti-climax. Put it this way I was 80% of the way in and wondered what was going on.