Books - What are you reading?
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K12beano said:
samajo said:
Good Omens. It's the funniest book I have read.
Oh yes - think I might need to give it a re-read soon! And I just loved the TV series too....
I have just received this:
http://www.grcogman.com/2020/11/the-dark-archive-o...
Book 7 of The Library series. Urban fantasy based in a library. Very light but nicely written stuff.
I've just finished "Time of Death" by Alex Barclay. Features an FBI agent, Ren Bryce, who is trying to track down various on the "most wanted" list while having various personal issues of her own. Not as cliched as that sounds, a decent book. I've read another with her in it, but can't remember which one.
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?i4got said:
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?Leithen said:
i4got said:
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?i4got said:
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?
There I can't help you, since all my books come from my daughter who is sent them to critique. She can't read them all so puts the ones she knows I will like to one side. As I said, this is my first by this author. But - and you'll like this - it does not refer back to previous books and is, so far anyway, completely stand-alone.i4got said:
Leithen said:
i4got said:
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?
Are they showing as read on your Kindle?
Leithen said:
i4got said:
Leithen said:
i4got said:
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?Are they showing as read on your Kindle?
i4got said:
Leithen said:
i4got said:
Leithen said:
i4got said:
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?Are they showing as read on your Kindle?
Leithen said:
i4got said:
Leithen said:
i4got said:
Leithen said:
i4got said:
lowdrag said:
Next off the pile is a novel by - to me - an unknown author, Denzil Meyrick, and it is called "Well of the Winds". Frankly, I don't think I have read a better detective novel since I don't know when. 400 pages of good writing, and i am only at page 150. It is so well written that you can only guess at the plot, but can't be certain, and it keeps you going onwards. Based on a small island off Kinloch, with the secret service already involved, it is twisting and turning in a brilliant way. I can highly recommend it.
That sounds right up my street. I see its book 5 in a series. Do I need to read them in order or is it reasonably standalone?Are they showing as read on your Kindle?
I have just started the fourth book of Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time." As they come in four collections of three volumes, that is the beginning of the second set.
It's actually quite entertaining and not the challenge it's sometimes made out to be. I'm losing track of who's who in his cast of hundreds and you really do have to actively read it and concentrate but it's not all that difficult.
I suspect I'm missing some of the subtext though. It's a 1950s book about upper class society in the 1920s and 1930s so there are references in there that the original audience would simply have just understood and not needed spelling out.
It's actually quite entertaining and not the challenge it's sometimes made out to be. I'm losing track of who's who in his cast of hundreds and you really do have to actively read it and concentrate but it's not all that difficult.
I suspect I'm missing some of the subtext though. It's a 1950s book about upper class society in the 1920s and 1930s so there are references in there that the original audience would simply have just understood and not needed spelling out.
Genau said:
I have just started the fourth book of Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time." As they come in four collections of three volumes, that is the beginning of the second set.
It's actually quite entertaining and not the challenge it's sometimes made out to be. I'm losing track of who's who in his cast of hundreds and you really do have to actively read it and concentrate but it's not all that difficult.
I suspect I'm missing some of the subtext though. It's a 1950s book about upper class society in the 1920s and 1930s so there are references in there that the original audience would simply have just understood and not needed spelling out.
A classic. I first read it about forty years ago. It's actually quite entertaining and not the challenge it's sometimes made out to be. I'm losing track of who's who in his cast of hundreds and you really do have to actively read it and concentrate but it's not all that difficult.
I suspect I'm missing some of the subtext though. It's a 1950s book about upper class society in the 1920s and 1930s so there are references in there that the original audience would simply have just understood and not needed spelling out.
Twice more since. And will be embarking on my fourth reading shortly.
Enjoy.
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