Coffee 3:28 Fri Aug 28
What book are you reading now?
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I've just finished Second Sleep, by Robert Harris.
I'm a big fan of Harris, he's a truly great writer. His prose is always a joy to read, but the ending to this one was, to put it mildly, crap.
He's got a new book coming out next month: V2, a novel set against the Germans' V2 rockets in WWII. Hopefully that will see him back to his best, both in writing and plot.
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WHU(Exeter)
3:59 Wed Sep 9
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A cabinet of Byzantine Curiorities - Anthony Kaldellis
It's all Greek to me. Boom fucking tish
Interesting bits and pieces in it, but some drab sections too. Eye opener how level headed they were at dealing with plagues, earthquakes and famine they 1500 years ago.
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4ever-blowin-bubbles
10:59 Tue Sep 8
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im waiting for the mark noble biography
i bet that will be a great read
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Mr Kenzo
10:19 Tue Sep 8
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10 Rules for Success by Karren Brady
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Top Iron
10:14 Tue Sep 8
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That simple Reacher formula has been the basis for stories for hundreds of years, that's why those books are so successful.
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FruityBoots.
4:46 Tue Sep 8
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This.
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joe royal
4:34 Tue Sep 8
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Just finished the latest Jack Reacher book.
He arrives in a new town
Helps a stranger
The stranger has enemies
Kills a few enemies
Gets his leg over kills a few more enemies
Hitch hikes out of town.
Bit like the old Kung Fu TV show from way back when.
Ah Grasshopoer.
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DukeofDevo
12:28 Tue Sep 8
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Skinks been in a few I seem to remember! I think that’s Hiassens Alter ego! The anti developer warrior! Lots of good books under his belt, surprised more haven’t been transferred to the screen! Tv or cinema
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Peckham
11:27 Mon Sep 7
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DukeofDevo 10:34
Skink the nutter.
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Peckham
11:24 Mon Sep 7
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Loved the Florida capers of Carl Hiassen.
His books cracked me up. Easy reading.
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DukeofDevo
10:34 Mon Sep 7
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Getting through Star Island by Carl Hiassen . Well written comedy crime nonsense, he’s got a good eye and ear for satirising the absurdities of our world.
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yngwies Cat
9:42 Mon Sep 7
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Gone to Sea In a Bucket - David Black.
It's actually an audiobook so technically I should be on Deb's What are listening to thread.
Anyway a ripping yarn about being a Submariner in WW 11.
Very good.
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philj904
8:42 Mon Sep 7
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Malcolm Mclaren biography, very good
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Peckham
8:29 Mon Sep 7
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DukeofDevo 12:30 Sun Sep 6
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Peckham 7:24 Sat Sep 5
Yes mate the Chinaman was adapted to a screen play years later. Never seen it. But mate the book is pukka.
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Vexed
2:11 Mon Sep 7
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Unlike you to be interested in kids and schools Willy son.
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Willtell
10:26 Mon Sep 7
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas...
Studied it at school and thought I remembered the story but
he side stories and characters I'd forgotten are making it interesting like it wasn't as a kid in school...
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Heath Hammer
11:24 Sun Sep 6
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Do No Harm was very good. Amazing insight into the world of top surgery where you need to leave you work at home.
On way back from hols and read.
New jack reacher - crap
Flash Crash - about the S&P futures trader who crashed the mkt from his bedroom - no bad
Just started Steve Jobs autobiography....
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martinbritt_63
1:33 Sun Sep 6
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do no harm - henry marsh
not exactly a feelgood read, by one of the world's greatest neurosurgeons.
not for those of a delicate disposition - but impossible to put down.
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Briano
12:45 Sun Sep 6
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Unforgivable Blackness
The life of Jack Johnson
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DukeofDevo
12:30 Sun Sep 6
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Peckham 7:24 Sat Sep 5
The Chinaman synopsis sounds like a film I’ve seen with Jackie Chan; and Pierce Brosnan playing a dead ringer for Gerry Adams
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Peckham
7:24 Sat Sep 5
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Its like Lee Child and Reacher. Also Cohen. They do killer debuts, subliminal writing and characters, but can not keep them consistent for so many years.
I supposed compared to movies or series where one successful one sets you up for life. Authors have to keep chipping away and so much less money in books etc.
Stephen Leather * The Chinaman 1992, synopsis below. Always carried and recommended this back in the day, when I was in the Army. Excellent read and adventure.
The Chinaman understood death.
Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates.
Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business.
Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store.
Then, simply but persistently, he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done. And was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance.
Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge. And went back to war.
Brilliant book.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
6:53 Sat Sep 5
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Peckham 6:41
That's the one fella.
Brilliant author, fantastic series of novels.
The first couple of novels where Parker was seeking retribution were as good as it gets, imo.
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