Last page turner you read?
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I've recently started reading books on Google play books and one of my favourite authors is Tom Clancy. Not everyones favourite but well thought out and full of action.
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5 people you meet in heaven...... by Mitch Albom. the preview of his next book at the end. Leaves you wanting more. "For one more Day" is the other book.
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Isaac's Army by Matthew Brzezinski the true story of the Jewish resistance in Warsaw during WW2 .......absolutely horrific puts our current situation into perspective
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I have read the last 3. Absolutely brilliant. Have you read The Sister's Brothers?Dark Cloud wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:57 pmI've got through a shedload since March when lockdown started."A Man Called Ove" is a great read, especially for people on the wrong side of 50! I also really loved "All the Light We Cannot See" and "Mudbound", but my all time favourite is still "The Devil All the Time" (avoid the recently made film as with most such films it doesn't do the book any justice!)
P.S."The Devil's Sanctuary" is good too!
I love Ellroy, Cormack McCarthy and Winslow, and I have just started the CJ Sansome Shardlake books.
I started these after reading the brilliant Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, but I would urge everyone to read Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtary. He has since written 2 prequels to this and a sequel. Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer prize and no wonder. I never thought I would read a cowboy book but its amazing.
Also Donald E Westlake is another brilliant American author with a track record from around 1959 to around 2010. Caper writing at its very best.
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I watched Kathleen Turner (again), in Body Heat, the other evening.
What a woman, she once was!
What a woman, she once was!
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Yes. I found it pretty tedious in parts. Then the Welsh guy got killed, the ring got dropped in the volcano and there were still 200 odd pages left so I never finished it. I'm sure I missed about 15 pages of interest.edlass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:50 pmHas anyone tried Lord of the Rings? I'm not the most avid of readers and I am finding it tough. I struggle to focus with all of the landscape descriptions but at the same time I can't stop! I am just starting book three of 6 (or at least that's how my version is broken down)
Oh, and give me janine Turner over Kathleen Turner any time.......
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My Mrs waded through "Lord of the Rings" and also says it's overrated, tedious bobbins. On the other hand Cormack McCarthy (The Road and No Country for Old Men among others) really is excellent.
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I read Evelyn Waugh’s ‘A Handful of Dust’ from start to finish, but that was many years ago. That poor fellow, stuck in the Amazon jungle. I just had to find out whether or not he managed to escape.
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, a very graphic novel of modern day survival in Mexico.
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Incidentally, I don’t quite know how this came up - a wrong letter or something - but if you google ‘paige turnah’ instead, you come up with something altogether different. Quite extraordinary.
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I struggled with this throughout and nothing happens at the endClaretEngineer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:45 pm“BFC TRANSFER NEWS SUMMER 2020(MUST CONTAIN LINK)”
Slow to start, picked up in the middle, fizzled out towards the end.
Not sure the sequel penned for January will be worth reading.
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The Plague - Camus
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The Day of the Jackal is a great read.
Going off on a little tangent, but I love the idea of espionage thrillers but have struggled to find many that I find really enjoyable. I read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy recently and really wanted to enjoy it but I just couldn't follow the story due to the unnecessarily complicated writing style. Any recommendations in this genre?
Going off on a little tangent, but I love the idea of espionage thrillers but have struggled to find many that I find really enjoyable. I read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy recently and really wanted to enjoy it but I just couldn't follow the story due to the unnecessarily complicated writing style. Any recommendations in this genre?
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Lord of the Rings was a right of passage in the seventies, I enjoyed it immensely, but I was always a fantasist, I dreamt Burnley would get back in the top tier of football.
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Personally I do really love Le Carre but I get the fact he is bit of an acquired taste. I would recommend books by Charles Cummings for good strong espionage fiction. The ones featuring a spy called Thomas Kell (start with A Foreign Country) are very good and he has also written a number of others as well..I particularly enjoyed Typhoon.Rileybobs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:12 pmThe Day of the Jackal is a great read.
Going off on a little tangent, but I love the idea of espionage thrillers but have struggled to find many that I find really enjoyable. I read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy recently and really wanted to enjoy it but I just couldn't follow the story due to the unnecessarily complicated writing style. Any recommendations in this genre?
Mick Herron's books featuring a bunch of failed/discredited MI5 Operatives led by a tyrannical maverick, Jackson Lamb, have been mentioned a couple of times on this thread and I like these too though they are more darkly humorous and more far-fetched than Cummings' stuff.
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I quite enjoyed The Spy Who Came in from the Cold but found Tinker Tailor really hard work.Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:29 pmPersonally I do really love Le Carre but I get the fact he is bit of an acquired taste. I would recommend books by Charles Cummings for good strong espionage fiction. The ones featuring a spy called Thomas Kell (start with A Foreign Country) are very good and he has also written a number of others as well..I particularly enjoyed Typhoon.
Mick Herron's books featuring a bunch of failed/discredited MI5 Operatives led by a tyrannical maverick, Jackson Lamb, have been mentioned a couple of times on this thread and I like these too though they are more darkly humorous and more far-fetched than Cummings' stuff.
Thanks for the recommendations, I've added the Mick Herron books to my list following the posts above and I'll look into Cummings too. Ta v much!
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Anything by Michael Connelly...especially the Harry Bosch series
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There could be a sequel.Rumbletonk wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:05 pmI struggled with this throughout and nothing happens at the end
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The Institute - Steven King
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Severin: A Tale Of Jack The Ripper by Simon Webb. For anyone interested in The Whitechapel murders this is a good fact based fiction read. Frederic Abberline was the chief investigating officer on the JTR case back in 1888. His favoured suspect was George Chapman aka Severin Klosowski. The novel takes up Abberline's theory.......couldn't put this one down!
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sounds interesting to me but not sure it will be a "I couldn't put it down book" but thought I would share.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54478753
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54478753
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Just to thank those who recommended Don Winslow’s The Force on this thread. I’ve read others of his but was unaware of this one and, having just finished it, can confirm it’s a belter. Anyone who enjoyed The Wire, The Shield, The Godfather, The Sopranos would love it too I’m sure.
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Really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
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Great read. The ultimate anti-hero. Have you read the Winter of Frankie Machine?Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:43 amJust to thank those who recommended Don Winslow’s The Force on this thread. I’ve read others of his but was unaware of this one and, having just finished it, can confirm it’s a belter. Anyone who enjoyed The Wire, The Shield, The Godfather, The Sopranos would love it too I’m sure.
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I have yes...fantastic. Also really loved The Dawn Patrol and California Fire and Life.
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Just reading 11.22.63, great book.GandalfsBeard wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:24 pmI'm in the mood for some proper escapism fiction, the kind of book that you burn through because it has you so hooked.
The last great book I read was 11.22.63 by Stephen King. For me it's up there with his best, and I read it in a few days
What's the last book that did that for you?
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Just finished John Grisham's "A Time to Kill". Excellent.
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Just started this last night funnily enough. Read a few King books and I’m not a massive fan, but this has been recommended to me by a few people, including on here.
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The Boy from the Woods - Harlan Coben
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Jimmy 'The Weed' Donnelly. Story of the Quality Street Gang in Manchester
Easy and interesting read. Covering the mafia/gang scene in Manchester thru 60's, 70's and 80's
Easy and interesting read. Covering the mafia/gang scene in Manchester thru 60's, 70's and 80's
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Got into Murder Mystery fiction during the past year.
JR Ellis - Yorkshire Murders fairly local to us.
Joy Ellis - Lincolnshire Fens Murders
JM Dalglish - more Yorkshire stuff
LJ Ross - Newcastle/Northumberland
Mostly have more than one on the go at the same time on my Kindle, a novel and a biography for example.
JR Ellis - Yorkshire Murders fairly local to us.
Joy Ellis - Lincolnshire Fens Murders
JM Dalglish - more Yorkshire stuff
LJ Ross - Newcastle/Northumberland
Mostly have more than one on the go at the same time on my Kindle, a novel and a biography for example.
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Just finished reading 'Son of Escobar' by Roberto Sendoya Escobar (aka Phillip Witcombe).
An apparently true story of the first born son of the infamous drug lord, who was rescued and raised by an MI6 agent from being an infant.
Brilliant read, if it is true, but I understand that some doubts have been raised about its accuracy.
I'd be interested in people's opinions who have also read this book.
An apparently true story of the first born son of the infamous drug lord, who was rescued and raised by an MI6 agent from being an infant.
Brilliant read, if it is true, but I understand that some doubts have been raised about its accuracy.
I'd be interested in people's opinions who have also read this book.
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The Lenny Johnrose book... outstanding.
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Who’s it by?!
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Fort Pillow by Harry Turner it's a fact /fiction account of a battle in the American civil war compelling reading.At the moment I'm flying through Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestine a sequel to the excellent Axe Man's Jazz for me both essential reading