Lemondropkid Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 First time I've read a Maigret book, only 160 pages, whole stack of them at the local library. Gushing reviews of the writer from the great and good of literature world- let's see🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siam Addict Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Absolutely loved my first Maigret novel, very hard act to follow but hooked on this one 10 pages in. Stephen King does crime fiction🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Lemondropkid said: Absolutely loved my first Maigret novel, very hard act to follow but hooked on this one 10 pages in. Stephen King does crime fiction🙂 Yeah, that's good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambo Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 19 hours ago, galenkia said: Yeah, that's good I was just going to say that i haven't read a Stephen King book since The Rats, but luckily did a bit of research and see that the author was James Herbert. So now it's more correctly "never read a Stephen King book". Billy Summer has mixed reviews, what's an SK highlight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Zambo said: I was just going to say that i haven't read a Stephen King book since The Rats, but luckily did a bit of research and see that the author was James Herbert. So now it's more correctly "never read a Stephen King book". Billy Summer has mixed reviews, what's an SK highlight? Misery, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Green Mile are among my favourite one's. Basically anything pre 2000. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 6 hours ago, galenkia said: Misery, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Green Mile are among my favourite one's. Basically anything pre 2000. Avoided the urge to interupt as the question was aimed at yourself, my answer would have been start at the beginning. I'm realy enjoying Billy Summers. King is 74 years of age, and he can still come up with something this good. Have read "recommended" books that have turned out to be dreadful. So Summers isn't peak Stephen King but it's damn good in it's own right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Still working my way through Grisham's books I've missed reading. Now about 3/4 into The Rainmaker and really enjoying the book. Without spoiling it for others who haven't read the book, the dirty trick played on the other lawyers had me LOL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Just started the latest one of the Rivers of London series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Just finished this latest offering by one of my favourite authors. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Nikki's autobiography of his pre Motley Crue days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 On 8/9/2022 at 3:56 PM, Lemondropkid said: First time I've read a Maigret book, only 160 pages, whole stack of them at the local library. Gushing reviews of the writer from the great and good of literature world- let's see🙂 I had never read any of these books either. A check of my local library found that yes, they too have a lot of them. So I read Maigret Travels. Light and easy to read. I think I will keep one handy at all times to fill in between a larger read. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 First time I've picked up a Dr Siri novel in roughly a decade, it's excellent. By pure chance I'd got as far in the series as this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Flew through the Dr Siri book which was marvelous. Too much detective fiction recently so go with a rare non-fiction, random charity shop pick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth about the world's changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, science, and political analysis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Reading this one written by the same author who wrote the Witcher series. Good read but the names of all the characters is doing my head in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 53 minutes ago, andycoll said: Good read but the names of all the characters is doing my head in. You're a better man than me! Just skimmed the Google preview, some of the early pages look like the Polish phone book🙂 560 pages too, hopefully it becomes easier as you progress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zeb Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 Cormoran Strike Series Book... 06 - The Ink Black Heart By Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling ABOUT THE BOOK When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits—and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways... A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Delighted to pick this up in a charity shop. Abercrombie's first novel, some of the characters and settings are familair from later works which is a treat- loving this one 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Just started this epic. Last one was also a 1000 page epic. Great read though 👍 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Just finishing this one. Moves along quickly but still not the same as the Ian Fleming books. I need to pick my pace up a bit. I borrowed the 2nd book in the Hussite trilogy by Sapkowski on Sunday and it is longer than the first. Then yesterday went up to the library expecting to pick up two books only to find out 4 books waiting. Then got home and logged into my library account intending to suspend all my remaining holds until after my upcoming trip only to find another two books had turned up. Some are going to be returned unread and reborrowed when I return. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maipenrai Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Reading my first Jonathan Kellerman book in a long time, always enjoyed this series: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Picked up another hardback from the Amazon locker by my work on the way home. Stephen King's latest. Another book that was cheaper in hardback than Kindle. £11 delivered to the locker versus £12.99 for the Kindle version. Same as the one I'm currently reading, The Ink Black Heart. That was £12.50 for the hardback versus £12.99 for the Kindle version. How this works I don't know, plus so much for Amazon caring about the environment!!. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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