Richey Edwards Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 25 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: The Blade Artist (I think it was out about a year before) is a bit like an accompanying piece to Dead Man's Shoes following Begbie in his new career. Has he turned over a new leaf? Oh I've read that too. It was decent. I take it Dead Mens Trousers picks up were Blade Artist ends? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 42 minutes ago, TheIntenseHummingOfEvil said: Oh I've read that too. It was decent. I take it Dead Mens Trousers picks up were Blade Artist ends? It's more of a final piece to Trainspotting, with plenty of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Juice Terry etc. They're not sure if Begbie is really reformed or not... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 12 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: It's more of a final piece to Trainspotting, with plenty of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Juice Terry etc. They're not sure if Begbie is really reformed or not... I've not read it but I'm going to hazard a guess and say Spoiler He isn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Finished "The Long Take" by Robin Robertson this morning. Took a wee bit to get into the style of it, but was a tremendous book and was quite disappointed when I finished it that there wasn't another few hundred pages still left. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenHibee Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. One of my absolute favourite books. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Finished “Minority Report” by Philip K Dick today. It’s a book of short stories, two of which were adapted into the movies “minority report” and “total recall”. I think that PKD has some good ideas for stories, but isn’t necessarily that good a writer, or maybe I just don’t like short stories. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Prussian Blue by Philip KerrDual story, nicely linked - enjoyed it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBo10 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Past Tense by Lee Child. Very much a book written to meet a publishers deadline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Past Tense by Lee Child. Very much a book written to meet a publishers deadline. Almost a parody of Jack Reacher, if that makes sense. Enjoyable guff all the same I suppose. Last few books I read have been biographies of Meatloaf (seems like a nice enough guy), Jimmy Page (weird, debauched but driven), and Robert Plant (seems like a decent guy despite the debauchery). John Bonham doesn't come out of either book as the sort of guy you'd want to meet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Currently nearly finished listening to Pet Sematary and reading A Legacy of Spies (John Le Carre). Pet Sematary is really bleak and miserable. I'd never fancied it as I thought it was going to be a silly knockabout thing with zombie hamsters etc. Instead it's family strife, trucks running over pets/kids/students. Enjoying it but not the cheeriest! I've seen a few Le Carre film adaptations but never got any audiobooks as I don't like any of the narrators but was given a copy of A Legacy of Spies. So glad I picked it up as I can see why James Ellroy rates him so highly and obviously borrows heavily from his style. There's not an ounce of fat in it. He conveys so much with so few words. Really knocked out by how well written it is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Read Manhunt, by Colin Sutton over the weekend. Was written by the SIO during the Amelie Delagrange murder on Twickenham Green in 2004. The investigation subsequently led the Police to Levi Bellfield, and uncovered two further murders, including that of Milly Dowler in 2002. The story was gripping, but I didn't have an awful lot of love for Sutton. He came across as incredibly pompous and arrogant at times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 21 minutes ago, Adam said: Read Manhunt, by Colin Sutton over the weekend. Was written by the SIO during the Amelie Delagrange murder on Twickenham Green in 2004. The investigation subsequently led the Police to Levi Bellfield, and uncovered two further murders, including that of Milly Dowler in 2002. The story was gripping, but I didn't have an awful lot of love for Sutton. He came across as incredibly pompous and arrogant at times. Any relation...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 49 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: Currently nearly finished listening to Pet Sematary and reading A Legacy of Spies (John Le Carre). Pet Sematary is really bleak and miserable. I'd never fancied it as I thought it was going to be a silly knockabout thing with zombie hamsters etc. Instead it's family strife, trucks running over pets/kids/students. Enjoying it but not the cheeriest! I've seen a few Le Carre film adaptations but never got any audiobooks as I don't like any of the narrators but was given a copy of A Legacy of Spies. So glad I picked it up as I can see why James Ellroy rates him so highly and obviously borrows heavily from his style. There's not an ounce of fat in it. He conveys so much with so few words. Really knocked out by how well written it is. I think Pet Sematary is great, shite film(s) though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Picked up “All the Beautiful Lies” by Peter Swanson, in Basel airport this morning. Taken around 4 hours of reading to get through it. Very predictable and a bit too “American”, for want of a better description. Be surprised if I bother reading anything else of his. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 19 hours ago, tarapoa said: Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr Dual story, nicely linked - enjoyed it Reminds me that I want to get hold of the Berlin Noir trilogy, his first three books. I love the Bernie Gunther novels and have read most of them but not the first 3. Picked up a compilation of the 3 in Melbourne a while back but it was too big to take with me, so ended up not buying it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 I think Pet Sematary is great, shite film(s) though.Cracking song. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Finished “The Sparrow” last night after Mrs Maths begging me to read it for yonks. I was not impressed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardy Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Last book I read was Night flight to Paris by David Gillman. WW2 spy thriller. Got a bit confusing in parts due to the amount of characters, but enjoyed it more and more as it came to its conclusion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 I was 3/4 of the way through A Clockwork Orange when my wife put my ereader in the washing machine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Gnash said: I was 3/4 of the way through A Clockwork Orange when my wife put my ereader in the washing machine. That's a tolchock in the yarbles. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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