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Remember the Inspector Banks TV series? In amongst a pile of books I picked up one of the Peter Robinson novels called Gallows View on which the series was based. All I can say is thank God the producer of the series did a better job than the author. A book that took willpower to finish. Yet there were fifteen books in the series, and the reviews from the Guardian Observer et al are glowing, so probably it's just me. But Robicheaux is back for the next read!
That's strange, I've always enjoyed the books. I didn't not enjoy the TV series, don't get me wrong, but I always imagined Banks differently than Stephen Tompkinson. I can't remember individual books, though, so perhaps the one you picked up is less good than the others. Bound to be less fast-paced when you've got more than an hour (or is it two?) to tell the story.
I've just finished "Fair Warning", from Michael Connelly. Very enjoyable.
I've just finished "Fair Warning", from Michael Connelly. Very enjoyable.
I've just finished "The end of the world running club" by Adrian J Walker. An interesting tale, Earth has been struck by many asteroids and things aren't looking good, the main character gets split from his family and has to get from Edinburgh to the south coast to find them. Not bad, though I did think it fizzled out a bit towards the end.
In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :
Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
PushedDover said:
In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :
Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
Goggins is nuts, [he's got his own book too iirc] and there's a great interview with Itzler on Joe Rogan about it all that had me in stitches. Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
https://youtu.be/1_LUggiIeUg
Edited by andy_s on Sunday 16th August 08:37
PushedDover said:
In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :
Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
I had a look at reviews and there were some suggestions that Goggins' book might be better from a training point of view. Any thoughts? Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
MC Bodge said:
PushedDover said:
In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :
Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
I had a look at reviews and there were some suggestions that Goggins' book might be better from a training point of view. Any thoughts? Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.
I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)
It read well to me that way.
As for a ‘training’ point of view. No idea- totally not applicable to me
I just enjoyed the read, hence post.
droopsnoot said:
I've just finished "The end of the world running club" by Adrian J Walker. An interesting tale, Earth has been struck by many asteroids and things aren't looking good, the main character gets split from his family and has to get from Edinburgh to the south coast to find them. Not bad, though I did think it fizzled out a bit towards the end.
really enjoyed it-there is a sequel of sorts from his wife's point of view
May kindle it for some quarantine reading.
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