Books - What are you reading?
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andy_s said:
As a by the by, Bosch has just wrapped up the last season of filming and a Netflix series of The Lincoln Lawyer is in the pipeline.
I noticed that in the TV section. I bought the DVD set of the first series and haven't watched it yet, so a few to catch up with perhaps. But then I'm sorting a lot of books at home and might just start on the books again in order, once I've made more of a dent in the unread pile. Most of them I read long enough ago that I've forgotten the plot by now.
Can't really compete with Roy Lanchester, but I'm about 100 pages into "A Promised Land", by Barack Obama.
Just getting to the run-up to the Primaries in 2006. Hadn't realised just how little experience he'd had in politics at that level before nabbing the top job. I've previously read "Dreams of my Father" so knew how he got to his first role in Chicago, and the various family influences.
Its a weighty book, but easy and engaging to read. Plenty of self-effacing comments, and how much he owes to Michelle's support.
Just getting to the run-up to the Primaries in 2006. Hadn't realised just how little experience he'd had in politics at that level before nabbing the top job. I've previously read "Dreams of my Father" so knew how he got to his first role in Chicago, and the various family influences.
Its a weighty book, but easy and engaging to read. Plenty of self-effacing comments, and how much he owes to Michelle's support.
PomBstard said:
Can't really compete with Roy Lanchester, but I'm about 100 pages into "A Promised Land", by Barack Obama.
Just getting to the run-up to the Primaries in 2006. Hadn't realised just how little experience he'd had in politics at that level before nabbing the top job. I've previously read "Dreams of my Father" so knew how he got to his first role in Chicago, and the various family influences.
Its a weighty book, but easy and engaging to read. Plenty of self-effacing comments, and how much he owes to Michelle's support.
Agree with that, half way through it now and it is a really engrossing read.Just getting to the run-up to the Primaries in 2006. Hadn't realised just how little experience he'd had in politics at that level before nabbing the top job. I've previously read "Dreams of my Father" so knew how he got to his first role in Chicago, and the various family influences.
Its a weighty book, but easy and engaging to read. Plenty of self-effacing comments, and how much he owes to Michelle's support.
Just finished reaper force by peter lee , all about the raf drone pilot squadrons and the pilots and there families.
Quite interesting to read what a head f
k it is compared to being away for months and the pilots various reasons for becoming a drone pilot.
Now onto Russians amongst us by Gordon corera , about the Russian attempts to insert deep cover spies into the west .
Good read although i keep getting side tracked googling Anna Chapman 😉
Quite interesting to read what a head f
k it is compared to being away for months and the pilots various reasons for becoming a drone pilot.Now onto Russians amongst us by Gordon corera , about the Russian attempts to insert deep cover spies into the west .
Good read although i keep getting side tracked googling Anna Chapman 😉
I've just finished "A Damned Serious Business" by Gerald Seymour. Heck, that was hard going. Every time a character thinks something or says something we get a long paragraph relating it to something in that characters history, over and over again. I've read other books by the same author and don't remember the rest being like this, to the extent that I almost gave up.
I've just finished "Revenge" by James Patterson and Andrew Holmes. Ex-SAS soldier becomes a private security consultant and gets involved in deaths and kidnappings. Not bad, easy to read, especially compared to my previous one.
They managed to avoid the usual errors that American authors make when writing books set in the UK - £100 notes, that kind of thing. I suspect Mr Holmes is probably responsible for the bulk of the actual writing.
They managed to avoid the usual errors that American authors make when writing books set in the UK - £100 notes, that kind of thing. I suspect Mr Holmes is probably responsible for the bulk of the actual writing.
Reading Mick Herron's new 'Slough House' at the moment, about halfway through.
A few years back i picked the first couple of the series up, and have enjoyed reading each one as they were published, but Herron's writing is starting to grate in this book- the plot is too thin, and the dialogue and descriptive writing haven't moved on for the last few books- the prose is refreshing when you first read it, but by book 7 the satire has lost it's bite and is a bit predictable.
A few years back i picked the first couple of the series up, and have enjoyed reading each one as they were published, but Herron's writing is starting to grate in this book- the plot is too thin, and the dialogue and descriptive writing haven't moved on for the last few books- the prose is refreshing when you first read it, but by book 7 the satire has lost it's bite and is a bit predictable.
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