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The nemesis file. About an SAS execution squad in Northern Ireland in the 70s. Totally gripping and I really hope the work of some SAS wannabe and not actual fact.
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buelhman. A very gritty vampire story . Just finished his other book Those across the river and it was brilliant.
The burning land by Bernard corn well, Viking type story, kind of average but gripping at the same time
Try the Arthur chronicles by him as they are excellent.
The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It's okay.
The Star King by Jack Vance. Part of the Demon Princes series of 5 books.
Read it before and it is one of my favourites.
James Oswald, Prayer for the Dead. I was given his first book a while back but took ages to read it thinking it was the usual cookie cutter crime book. Read it anyway and was hooked, nice tinge of the supernatural about it, good if maybe a touch stereotypical characters. Read the rest in fairly quick succession and thats me up to the fifth now. Several mentions of mountain biking too through the series.
Olga Da Polga by Michael Bond.
It's riveting.
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One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter, he just decides one day to ride round the coast of Britain.
Alone on the Wall, about Alex Honnold. Enjoying it.
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. Bloody love McCarthy.
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes.
The Revenant. A Trapper on the frontier suffers a bear attack, his mates rob him and leave him for dead in the wilderness. he recovers and seeks revenge. Rocky mountains/1820's.
Seems good so far.
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Short stories from the gonzo journalist, hilarious!
The Revenant. A Trapper on the frontier suffers a bear attack, his mates rob him and leave him for dead in the wilderness. he recovers and seeks revenge. Rocky mountains/1820's.
Seems good so far.
That sounds like it might work well as a film.
I'm reading child44. which apparently didn't work well as a film.
One more kilometre and we're in the showers by Timothy Hilton. Pretty good.
https://m.harpercollins.co.uk/9780006532286/one-more-kilometre-and-were-in-the-showers
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Again. Because it's very good.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Was made into a film with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.
Just finished Ray Winstone's autobiography in case any one was thinking that I am a bit flowery.
The Kite Runner is one of my favourites and as usual the book is way better than the film.
Guardian travel section
The power of the Dog by Don Winslow, best book I have read in a long time.
South America, drugs, cartel , violence, USA interference CIA, war on drugs.
Top read.
Just my Type - it's a book about the history of typefaces. 🙂
Angel's Don't Play This Haarp. By Jane Manning and Dr Nick Begich.
also, A Slave's Guide to The Galaxy. By No One Special.
not everyone's cuppa. Interesting for me though.
The mountain shadow by Gregory David Roberts the follow up to Shantaram but nowhere near as good 🙁
+1 for Cormac Mcarthy - Border Trilogy is terrific.
Currently reading Blood Hunt by Neil Gunn - good, but not as good as the Silver Darlings or Highland River.
[i]That sounds like it might work well as a film.[/i]
I'm assuming that's tongue in cheek 😉 I've not seen it though.
I finished the Hobbit on Thursday and now about to start "Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World".
Iron, Steam And Money by Roger Osborne. Story of the Industrial Revolution in the UK. I only have enough patience for non-fiction.
Influx - Daniel Suarez
So far so-so
Very simular to his others (near future techpsionage - i think I just made that word up!), of which I thought Daemon was amazing, the rest less so as I read each one. I think this one will end up somehwere in the middle.
The Search for the Missing Are.
It's a real page turner.
STW
Wikipedia
Stack Overflow
😛
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Only just started dabbling with his stuff, and this is a brilliant send up of religion.
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The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. Bloody love McCarthy
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+1 for Cormac Mcarthy - Border Trilogy is terrific.
Currently reading Blood Hunt by Neil Gunn - good, but not as good as the Silver Darlings or Highland River
I loved the start of The Crossing but overall probably my least favourite of the Border Trilogy. Whole chapters in Spanish is a little silly IMHO.
As a whole I agree though fantastic trilogy probably only bettered by Blood Meridian. McCarthy is definitely at his best writing about the old West.
I'm just finishing up American Psycho. Absolutely bonkers as expected. Gives me a real appreciation of Christian Bale as an actor. Totally nails the Bateman of the book.
The Greatest Knight - William Marshal - er the David Beckham of the medieval tournament ?
Just about to start:
The Establishment, and how they get away with it. By Owen Jones.
Not my usual sport autobiography/cycling read so looking forward to it...
Also (re)reading Small Gods. Massive Terry Pratchett fan
The most recent have been [i]When The Lights Go Out[/i], by Tanith Lee, one of my favourite books, about an out-of-season, slightly down-at-heel south-coast seaside town, love, loss and sacrifice. Only just become available as an ebook, I already have a paperback from '97 when it was first published, and I've just managed to find an absolutely perfect hardcover for $16 from Canada!
[i]The Electric Michealangelo[/i], by Sarah Hall, about a young man who becomes a tattooist in Morcambe in the 20's, then moves to New York and Coney Island, before returning home after the Second World War. Just found this as an ebook.
Just started re-reading [i]The Wizard Of The Pigeons[/i], by Megan Lindholm, now writing as Robin Hobb, set in Seattle, about a Vietnam Vet haunted by something dark from his past. After reading it the first time it left such an impression that it was over ten years before I could bring myself to read it again. Just got an ebook version of this one as well.
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz. Excellent reading.
Feet in the clouds - Richard askwith
The Genesis Code, by John Case, getting towards, the back and very tense.
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams. Although I have only just started it.
Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton. Which I have really enjoyed so far and have almost finished it and looking forward to the next book.
The original Flashman, after a recommendation on here. Really enjoying it so far, not the sort of thing I'd usually read so that's nice too.
"The Vorrh", Brian Catling. Brilliant.
I [i]think[/i] its about a German city, transplanted into Africa, that happens to sit at a gate into the Garden of Eden, with a protagonist who's fashioned a bow from the spine of his dead lover.
As said, brilliant.
Towns of Britain - Jones the Planner. Loads of urban planning goodness.
Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton. Which I have really enjoyed so far and have almost finished it and looking forward to the next book.
I read the Nights Dawn trilogy which, although slightly cheesy in places was a good read. Shite ending though (IMO)
Might give that series a go...
The original Flashman, after a recommendation on here. Really enjoying it so far, not the sort of thing I'd usually read so that's nice too.
Did the same recently for the same reason!
Joe abercrombie...half a king trilogy
Hemingway's old man and the sea
Just finished [i]Tree of Smoke[/i] by Denis Johnson and it was disappointing - Big book on Vietnam and the fog of war.
If someone from the rank and file had written it you'd say it was brilliant - some exceptional writing. But Johnson writing blistering prose isn't news - what we're waiting for is him stepping it up to the large canvas-masterpiece, as befits his talent. Signs are that this isn't going to happen - he hung his balls out in tackling such a played out subject, but he's too much of an artist to get involved with the nuts and bolts artisan-ship of making a big narrative work. Result is a v uneven, creaky book.
Just waiting to start Harvard Press' biography of Nikola Tesla.
Also, has any read Don Quixote? Readable by a normal human?
I'm just at the end of an Iain M Banks marathon with the Hydrogen Sonata while battling with The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane which is about the evolution of Mitochondria.
Part 2 of the Border Trilogy by McCarthy, "The Crossing". Incredibly absorbing (so much so that I just told my son the plot as I was putting him to bed!)
Imagine only reading [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/i-dont-understand-the-appeal-of-reading-fiction ]non-fiction[/url] and missing out on stuff like that! Bonkers.
Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris, wasn't sure at first but chapter two and I'm in
also Charly Wegelius' biog which is good
The Book of the Bothy - Phoebe Smith
Getting some ideas for wee trips away.
Dictator....Robert Harris... Just finished.......I found it very difficult to put. down.
Been reading Pandora's Star but kind of lost interest . Now on Dusk by Tim Lebbon. Not far enough in to make a judgment but I do like his other Noreela stuff
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Long-Walk-Story-Freedom/dp/1845296443 ]The Long Walk[/url] - a quite horrific WW2 account of escaping a Gulag by making it from Siberia into Asia.
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lie-Tree-Frances-Hardinge/dp/144726410X ]The Lie Tree[/url] - Costa Winning effort from Frances Hardinge. Her work is incredibly inventive, quite literally painting through words.
Rereading the Spike Milligan war diaries, usually do this every 2-3 years, currently in Italy.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Sister lent it to me and thought it might be a bit 'girly'
Best book i've read in months
The Crippled God by Steven Erikson. Ten books in and I still don't know what's going to happen. Brilliant writing.
Matt
Just finished Lita Ford: Living Like A Runaway (her autobiography).
You'd think being the story of the former Runaways guitarist and her life in the music scene, it would be mostly name dropping, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Well, it is!
Probably need to read something more intellectual next, but seems to be mainly paint charts at the moment Mrs Feet has dictated a LOT of decorating 😐
re reading Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thomson just to see if it's a good as I remember it.
It is 😀
The original Flashman, after a recommendation on here. Really enjoying it so far, not the sort of thing I'd usually read so that's nice too.
Did the same recently for the same reason!
Flashy's? I kinda enjoyed the film, tried three of the book, didn't enjoy them at all (didn't get the draw of a cad tbh).. But we're all different luckily.
Just finished Jason m. Hough Dire Earth series which I enjoyed & another of Edward w Robertson's follow up to the breakers series , & now trying out Paul Drakers Pyramid lake.. Seems kinda predictable(ish) but have given up on a lot worse
Just finishing Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Strange, wonderful and sad. And occasionally annoying.
'Tortilla Flat'
Also re-reading 'Snow Falling On Cedars'
The Long Walk - a quite horrific WW2 account of escaping a Gulag by making it from Siberia into Asia.
Good heads up that looks like a corker. That's now in my holiday pile.
Mrs Zip wants to know what people are reading that's like Rory Clemence or CJ Samson? ( both previous recommendations off here)
Vulcan 607
Skunk works by Ben Rich
LA Requiem by Robert Crais.
Part 2 of the Border Trilogy by McCarthy, "The Crossing". Incredibly absorbing (so much so that I just told my son the plot as I was putting him to bed!)
Imagine only reading non-fiction and missing out on stuff like that! Bonkers.
Cheeky! 😆
Just finished A song of Shadows - John Connolly and will start The Martian tonight .
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Only just started dabbling with his stuff, and this is a brilliant send up of religion.
It's got to be about the best of the disc world books.
Just finished Bruce by Peter Carlin (Springsteen bio).
Now on the current edition of Granta.
War of the Worlds
The Invisible man
Bleak House
Just keeping up to date with the modern stuff..
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor. The first part of his account of a solo walk through pre-war (1933) Europe starting in Holland and (in the second book) eventually reaching Greece. Beautifully written evocation of a world substantially wiped away in WW2.
He went on to have a leading role with the Greek resistance in occupied Crete during which he captured a German general. An amazing life well lived.