TheDoctor Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Echo Burning by Lee Child The fifth in the rather good Jack Reacher series about the ex-Army cop turned drifter who finds himself in Texas and is picked up by a Mexican woman who claims her husband is due out of jail and had been beating her prior to his incarceration while her in-laws stand can her because she's Mexican and she fell out with her own family. She needs to get out and asks Reacher for his help. But everything isn't as it seems. A good thriller and I'm into the last couple of chapters as the story becomes unravelled and I have to say it's a decent addition to the series, although I still think the previous story, "The Visitor", is slightly better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) Read "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connolly and "Long Lost" by Harlan Coben over the weekend. First was very good, second sadly average. I was disappointed. Reading "The Malice Box" by Martin Langfield at the moment, which is rather bizarre. Edited April 14, 2009 by H_B 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 The Quiet American by Graham Greene,again.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris McDonald Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh I'm currently 100 pages through Porno 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 I'm in the middle of that just now. It's really excellent - a slow burner. It fairly picked up pace towards the end! Reread The Shining recently but was disappointed, not as scary as I remember. I blame age - my own. Also read The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid, (not as gory as usual but a decent page turner none the less although I had my suspicions about the villain from early on) and The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen (again a pretty bog standard easy read - all finished in one night) Currently reading We Need to Talk About Kevin which is proving to be tough going, purely on a personal level. I have a Snowball in Hell and In the Dark by Mark Billingham on the list to read next. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Trainspotting by Irvine WelshI'm currently 100 pages through Porno I preferred Porno to Trainspotting, although that could be down to the familiarity of the characters. Glue is still my favourite book from Welsh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Extremely interesting and gives a view on the precarious nature of the jobbing artist/writer. And he's repairing his Falls of the Clyde mural too! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centre Stand Hero Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Great book, three stories in one. Anyone interested in Russian history will love this book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GypsyTillIDie Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Reading 'Lord of the Flies' right now. Need to have it finished for Monday, and I'm about half-way through it. Quite good so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CattyBee Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Reading 'Lord of the Flies' right now. Need to have it finished for Monday, and I'm about half-way through it. Quite good so far. I think its a dreadful book! Couldn't wait till it was finished! Oh and i've just read "The Secret of Crickley Hall" by James Herbert I enjoyed reading that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Thought that I'd leave this thread for a while, as I was basically posting the same thing every time. Now finished the David Eddings Belgariad and Malloreon series as well as the companion novels of Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara the Sorceress and the Rivan Codex. I enjoyed them, but you wouldn't enjoy them if you're not into fantasy novels, which tend to be quite divisive. There were a few wee things that annoyed me, I sometimes thought that the dialogue was a bit clumsy and characters seemed quite like caricatures of the features of their nationality at times. Those are small points, though, and I'd reccommend the books to anyone who's into that kind of thing. I'd probably give them an eight or nine out of ten. Just started "Roseanna" by two Swedish authors whose names I've forgotten. It's the first of a series of ten novels about a detective called Martin Beck in Sweden in the sixties. Only about sixty pages in - seems okay so far, if a bit slow paced, but I'll reserve judgement until I've read more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centralparker Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Crime by Irvine Welsh. Starts off promisingly but the ending is rather ham fisted. Still, Welsh writes some great flashback-to-childhood prose as part of the plot. He's really good at that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GypsyTillIDie Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Finished Lord of the Flies yesterday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayBees Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' by Doris Kearns Goodwin Absolutely riveting study of the man from beginning to end. Both a biography and overview of just what a great statesman he was, how he overcame crisis after crisis in the most challenging time of all for the USA, won over the overwhelming affections of everybody he came into contact with, and somehow managed his cabinet of bitter political rivals (hence the title). I was urging him not to go to Ford's Theatre at the end of the book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcor Roar Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. Was very funny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenayr Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Micheal Crichton State of Fear, 2nd time read it love it. Really gets you thinking if global warming is really happening! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footiechick Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson Quite enjoyed it. Seemed to be too many sub-stories at a couple of points which remained unfinished but apart from that fairly interesting characters. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Northerner Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Murder in Samarkand - Craig Murray The story of the UK Ambassador in Uzbekistan just after the Twin Towers. Him making noises about the casual use of torture on 'political' detainees - including boiling people to death and rape with broken bottles - annoys the British and US hierarchy so they try to force him out of office. You know this shit happens but it still annoys the feck out of you reading it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demon Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 I'm reading "Look To Windward" by Iain M Banks (note the "M"). I've been a fan of Banks for years but haven't read any of his science fiction as it's not really my thing. I admit it's been a slog as I'm not used to the large chunks, sometimes full chapters, of detailed descriptions about alien landscapes and technology. I've got into it though and it's been a welcome change. I'd recommend it and I'm going to read his other SF books between more mainstream novels. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted May 18, 2009 Author Share Posted May 18, 2009 "Engleby" by Sebastian Faulks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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