Blootoon87 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Can't be fucked reading the whole thread but has anyone read any of John Niven's books? I've read Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming, and Straight White Male. Fairly enjoyed them all but The Second Coming was probably my favourite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 "The Redeemer" by Jo Nesbo. Typical Harry Hol storyline but gets you sucked in that you want to get to the end with a few twists along the way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRuffian Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Talking of Nordic noir, have you ever clapped eyes on thon Camilla Lackberg? Widnae ......... half. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Norwegian wid... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Norwegian wid... Sounds like the Scots version of a Beatles song. Camilla Lackberg is a Swedish wid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) I'm currently reading "The End of the Cold War 1985 - 1990". Pretty good. ETA - Although I'm pretty sure I can already forecast the ending. Edited March 23, 2016 by Dindeleux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I'm currently reading "The End of the Cold War 1985 - 1990". Pretty good. I'm worried that I won't get a chance to read the sequel. Working title 'Putin Pushes The Button'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I'm worried that I won't get a chance to read the sequel. Working title 'Putin Pushes The Button'. To be fair GD I wouldn't imagine you will be here to read many more books regardless of what button Putin hits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 To be fair GD I wouldn't imagine you will be here to read many more books regardless of what button Putin hits. Have you ever heard the saying 'the good die young'? I'll be around for a few years yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRuffian Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Nikolai Gogol - The Nose Not a book itself but part of a book of Russian short stories that I'm reading at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Not done much reading recently, as a result of her buying me an e reader that I can't take to and me downloading a few apps to help me work on my German while I'm on the train to work instead. Decided I better use the Christmas present though and just downloaded a few things. Couple of Charles Cumming efforts(The Hidden Man, A Spy by Nature), Stuart Macbride's "Cold Granite", Sebastian Barry's "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty" and Hugh McIlvanney's "Walking Wounded". Should keep me going for a few weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Psychosis Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Finally read Moneyball. I enjoyed it but I think its lost some of the impact now that the story and the concept are so well known. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Novels somewhat sidetracked lately as I've been reading back over Seamus Heaney's poems. He is undoubtedly one of my favourite poets. I plan to start The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the coming week. After that, I'll be getting my teeth into some more Sebastian Barry, mainly because I was so impressed by The Secret Scripture - a book I would happily recommend to anybody. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Not done much reading recently, as a result of her buying me an e reader that I can't take to and me downloading a few apps to help me work on my German while I'm on the train to work instead. Decided I better use the Christmas present though and just downloaded a few things. Couple of Charles Cumming efforts(The Hidden Man, A Spy by Nature), Stuart Macbride's "Cold Granite", Sebastian Barry's "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty" and Hugh McIlvanney's "Walking Wounded". Should keep me going for a few weeks. Read 3 of them so far. A Spy by Nature was decent, Walking Wounded was very enjoyable, and Cold Granite was very disappointing. Is it worth reading more of Stuart MacBride or are they all as predictable and cliche ridden? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Is it worth reading more of Stuart MacBride or are they all as predictable and cliche ridden?He has a Sci fi book set in Glasgow. It's called Halfhead and it's under Stewart B. MacBride. I really enjoyed it, although I'm a bit of a Sci fi fan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover Usual top quality American noir/crime fiction but with added voodoo. The sections on J Edgar Hoover are so warped and funny. Also just about finished Malcolm Mackay's Glasgow Trilogy (The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, How A Gunman Says Goodbye and The Sudden Arrival of Violence). Concise writing style that unsettles with the casual approach of the characters to life and death. Worth getting hold of them if you're a fan of Rebus or other Scottish crime novels. There's no big personalities like Rebus or Cafferty - more of a study of the grubby workings of underworld figures. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 If anyone is a fan or would like to give sci-fi a try Amazon are selling Peter F Hamiltons - The Void Trilogy (3 very big books) for £2.65 with Prime. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-F-Hamilton-Void-Trilogy/dp/1447293819?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=ho01f-21 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 In addition to the holidays, I've had a few road trips to Norwich over the last while so I've started using Audible more and more. Loving the Scottish Crime stuff from the likes of Stuart McBride and James Oswald. Easy listening adventure stuff from Clive Cussler also helps pass the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 If anyone is a fan or would like to give sci-fi a try Amazon are selling Peter F Hamiltons - The Void Trilogy (3 very big books) for £2.65 with Prime. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-F-Hamilton-Void-Trilogy/dp/1447293819?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=ho01f-21 That's an incredible bargain, cheaper than the postage when you buy a 1p second hand paper back. It will be a while before I start on it, just in the middle of Reality Dysfunction which I'm getting right into after slagging off Fallen Dragon. Thanks for the tip. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 That's an incredible bargain, cheaper than the postage when you buy a 1p second hand paper back. It will be a while before I start on it, just in the middle of Reality Dysfunction which I'm getting right into after slagging off Fallen Dragon. Thanks for the tip. No probs. His books are BIG so I thought that it had to be a mis-price but 'something' has been dispatched already. I can see why you would/could criticise Hamiltons books but he always does great things in his stories which make me forget all the bad bits. The Void Trilogy is set in the Commonwealth Universe which has 2 earlier books, Pandoras Star and Judas Unchained (I'm about halfway through this one atm), I've read that you should be alright with The Void trilogy without reading the first 2.......but speaking from my own experience, the events in those novels are so major I don't see how it couldn't influence any future stories. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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