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The Indian village is gone. I guess the rivers stopped flowing and the grass stopped growing. 

A few from the morning walk. 

If only all road works were this quick. Pattaya Tai. Started Monday morning, finished Friday morning. 

Saw this on my walk this morning down by the fireworks festival. Maybe it's so the stoners have got somewhere to pass the pipe around. 

First read this book back in the 1970's and was keen to reread after a trip to Colorado a few years ago. Was lucky enough to get it on a kindle sale for AUD $1.69. a few weeks ago. 

Sorry. To clarify. The baht bus has broken down. 

And to add to the traffic hazards on Pattaya Tai. 

The line marking on Beach road almost done. 

Recently finished this.

First morning in six it hasn't rained and the people are out and about. 

It's finally stopped raining in Nha Trang. 

11 hours ago, Lemondropkid said:

Written in 2020, didn't know it existed till picking it up in a second hand bookstore. As funny as anything he's written. Only seems to get poor reviews from Trump fans.

Just recently reread that myself. Very funny. 

TOMORROW. 

5 days

8 Days.

Reading this. Moving along at a good pace.

Just starting this.

7 hours ago, Zeb said:

This is due for release later this week -

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies
This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office

Credit guardian

Mick Herron’s new novel opens with a simple assertion: “The worst smell in the world is dead badger.”

The poor beast itself turns up soon after, as does a “flight kit”: the stash of documents, currency and disguise kept close at hand by spies just in case.

A frantically violent night-time chase through unexpectedly hostile Devon farmland quickly follows. But it is not the action, or even the tradecraft, that will reassure Herron readers that they are on secure ground with The Secret Hours, his 16th novel across 20 years. It is the stench of that badger.

Herron has become something of a laureate of decrepitude. His Slough House series features the fabled Slow Horses, British secret agents cast out to the periphery of the shadow world via an imaginatively comprehensive assortment of personal, operational, moral or other failings.

In those books both the dilapidated building and its equally distressed inhabitants are subjected to a detailed physical scrutiny that doesn’t shy from matters of hygiene and odour.

Most particularly in respect of Herron’s leading protagonist, Jackson Lamb, the flatulent, corpulent, unwashed leader of the Slow Horses, captured in all the spirit of his brilliance and boorishness by Gary Oldman in the Apple TV+ series.

While The Secret Hours is billed as a standalone novel, it is really more of a lean-to, or even an extension. Among the new faces there are plenty of familiar names, storylines reappear in one guise or another and the world is still populated by the joes and the dogs and the milkmen and the rest of the glossary of Herron’s Spook Street.

More here -

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/08/the-secret-hours-by-mick-herron-review-secrets-and-spies

Got a hold at the library on this one.

This.

Currently reading this. Not a Slough House book but a collection of short stories dating back to 2006.

On 9/1/2023 at 5:19 PM, Lemondropkid said:

A new author for me that I've only just starting reading.

Georgoe Pelecanos, one of the writers on the Wire so that hooked me in. Stunned his books get so many mixed reviews on goodreads, so of these guys must be too tied up in their own predjuices.

I'll go with Stephen King who loves him!

 

I've read most of his books over the years. His earlier books are better than his later offerings but their still worth reading.

20 hours ago, Golfingboy said:

Have always liked Jimmy Buffets  music since first hearing it back in 1975. Sad to see him go.

Giving this one a go now. Good so far.

Just finished this. Not to bad.

The latest by Walter Mosley. Unfortunately not an Easy Rawlins story.