Spain for a week...I need a good book.

[nick_j007]

I have tomorrow to walk into a store (or at the airport maybe) and pick up a good read or two to keep me happy near the pool and in the evenings.

What do I like? Good question.

Probably something blokey, not too thick (I mean the book), words not too small neither Maybe a setting in a hot climate as that normally does it for me when I'm in a hot place.

Anyone read something up to date recently that they consider a 'must read'?

Edited by nick_j007 on Thursday 20th August 18:56

[Plotloss]

Mr Nice.

[pincher]

I always enjoy John Grisham books.

[nick_j007]

Plotloss said:

Mr Nice.

lol. Quickest response ever?

Thank you...looking now!

[nick_j007]

Plotloss said:

Mr Nice.

This one by Howard Marks?

http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews/MarksHoward/...

Edited by nick_j007 on Thursday 20th August 18:49

[Jasandjules]

Dean Koontz has a Frankenstein Trilogy (with a twist) which is rather good IMHO - I am just on the last 20 pages of the third book.

[grumbledoak]

C.J. Sansom's novels on Shardlake, starting with 'Dissolution'. Detective stories, but set at the time of the reformation. A good read, and they taught me more about that period of history than 'O' level History and every stuffy BBC constume drama ever made.

Edited by grumbledoak on Thursday 20th August 18:59

[Plotloss]

nick_j007 said:

Plotloss said:

Mr Nice.

This one by Howard Marks?

http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews/MarksHoward/...

Edited by nick_j007 on Thursday 20th August 18:49

That's it and it is a genuinely brilliant read.

[HOGEPH]

Fiesta Readers Wives Bums Special?

[newberry]

Sniper one is a good book as are lone survivor, apache and apache dawn.

[Elskeggso]

I'm enjoying this at the moment:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bringing-Down-House-Studen...

[tenohfive]

Anything by Lee Child ticks most of those boxes. For shameless, rambo style (but still quite good) action any of the 'scarecrow' series by Matthew Reilly are good - I've demolished one every time I've gone on a long weekend away recently.
Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggudden was pretty good if you Bernard Cornwall type stuff.

Of all of them I'd get the latest Lee Child book (which I've yet to read, waiting for it to come out in paperback.)

[tenohfive]

Elskeggso said:

I'm enjoying this at the moment:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bringing-Down-House-Studen...

There was a film I saw about a year ago that whilst not titled the same, sounds like a very similar version of that.

[escargot]

Plotloss said:

nick_j007 said:

Plotloss said:

Mr Nice.

This one by Howard Marks?

http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews/MarksHoward/...

Edited by nick_j007 on Thursday 20th August 18:49

That's it and it is a genuinely brilliant read.

Seconded.

[voyds9]

grumbledoak said:

C.J. Sansom's novels on Shardlake, starting with 'Dissolution'. Detective stories, but set at the time of the reformation. A good read, and they taught me more about that period of history than 'O' level History and every stuffy BBC constume drama ever made.

Edited by grumbledoak on Thursday 20th August 18:59

Wife's reading these at the moment, I think they are great, she hasn't spoken to me in a week.

[nick_j007]

Just to add that I confess to being a rather slow reader with a low threshold waiting for story development! Not exactly Peter and Jane levels, but maybe you get the idea

Mr. Nice sounds good though.

All suggestions gratefully received!

[nick_j007]

tenohfive said:

Anything by Lee Child ticks most of those boxes. For shameless, rambo style (but still quite good) action any of the 'scarecrow' series by Matthew Reilly are good - I've demolished one every time I've gone on a long weekend away recently.
Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggudden was pretty good if you Bernard Cornwall type stuff.

Of all of them I'd get the latest Lee Child book (which I've yet to read, waiting for it to come out in paperback.)

Hey, that sounds good to me!

What about this one? Have you read it?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tripwire-Jack-Reacher-nove...

[i remember]

Why is everything st vol1 , and vol2 if you can read fast!

[nick_j007]

escargot said:

Plotloss said:

nick_j007 said:

Plotloss said:

Mr Nice.

This one by Howard Marks?

http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews/MarksHoward/...

Edited by nick_j007 on Thursday 20th August 18:49

That's it and it is a genuinely brilliant read.

Seconded.

Ok, If I see it in Smith's it's mine. Thank you very much.

[tenohfive]

nick_j007 said:

tenohfive said:

Anything by Lee Child ticks most of those boxes. For shameless, rambo style (but still quite good) action any of the 'scarecrow' series by Matthew Reilly are good - I've demolished one every time I've gone on a long weekend away recently.
Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggudden was pretty good if you Bernard Cornwall type stuff.

Of all of them I'd get the latest Lee Child book (which I've yet to read, waiting for it to come out in paperback.)

Hey, that sounds good to me!

What about this one? Have you read it?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tripwire-Jack-Reacher-nove...

I've read all but the most recent. Tripwires a good one, one of the better ones. One Shot is another. They're all the same character throughout, but written in a way that you don't need to have read all the books to understand - they're all independent.