Professor Toffee
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The GOT Book Club
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Det Insp Logan Macrae.
The other books ( two ) are about Det Ash Henderson ( disgraced former Det Insp )
The Ash Henderson books are off the scale dark and are crying out to be made into a film.
Never read any of them - they sound good. Thanks again
Black Belt Jones
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Just finished 'Best served cold' - really strong again. I've got red country on the shelf but I'm going to leave it for a bit, need a break from all the stabbings and murder!
Just finished this, been on my reading list for ages.
Totally bonkers, great for fun and takes so many swipes at so many people, I wouldn't know where to start .
bluebrotha77
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finished this about 2 weeks ago.brillant book.serious army and race they were.
bluebrotha77
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finished this yesterday.very easy reading but my god what hell that man must have went through.
gonetomorrow
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I've read it on and off for 40 years. And you're right. It's fun. Laugh out loud stuff. It doesn't do to take Thompson too seriously.
Black Belt Jones
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Just seen that Denis Johnson passed away last month 
Hands down one of the best writers I've ever read in the shorter form - e.g. Jesus's son, Angels. Often compared with Cormac McCarthy - Now CM is the Don as we all know but he's never written anything as perfect as those two (seriously). Longer books, though, and Johnson was a bit ragged. He was a poet at heart, and struggled a bit with the conventional structure you need to make bigger novels work. Tree of Smoke is a good example - winning the national book award and some deserved mainstream recognition, some exceptional sequences but a bit jumbled.
All around them men drank alone, staring out of their faces.
RIP Denis.
Hands down one of the best writers I've ever read in the shorter form - e.g. Jesus's son, Angels. Often compared with Cormac McCarthy - Now CM is the Don as we all know but he's never written anything as perfect as those two (seriously). Longer books, though, and Johnson was a bit ragged. He was a poet at heart, and struggled a bit with the conventional structure you need to make bigger novels work. Tree of Smoke is a good example - winning the national book award and some deserved mainstream recognition, some exceptional sequences but a bit jumbled.
All around them men drank alone, staring out of their faces.
RIP Denis.
Donald Twain
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Every single child should be given this at birth, utterly wonderful!
Gwladysstreetlad
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Dunstan by Conn Iggulden, which is a retelling of the life of St Dunstan written in first person through his own eyes. It's a great read and another brilliant book by Iggulden who is criminally underrated as an author. The only fault I found really grating was Iggden's use of the word "Dad" early on when Dunstan is talking about his Father, it just felt so horribly out of place and it's not the first time the author has made this poor choice in his books. Still an excellent book all the same, 8/10.
Mostyn Thomas and the Big Rave, by Richard Williams. Mostyn Thomas and the Big Rave pits a struggling Welsh farming community against the unstoppable rave movement of the early 1990s. A throwback to my early years and a jolly Summer read - flows along agreeably with some dark and twisty bits in the plot.
Amazon product ASIN B073576XN5
Click and buy through the GOT Amazon link on the home page obvs
Amazon product ASIN B073576XN5
Click and buy through the GOT Amazon link on the home page obvs
Ta. Will try him
Just put his first 3 on order from my digital library
Stephen King recommendations:
Peter Straub (obviously, since he has done a couple of collaborations with him)
Neil Gaiman (Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neverwhere, American Gods)
Crime recommendations:
Dennis Lehane (could try the start of the Kenzie & Gennaro books - A Drink Before the War)
Don Winslow (The Power of the Dog, for example)
George V. Higgins (elegantly-written Boston underworld crime with plot mostly revealed through dialogue)
James Sallis (John Turner trilogy, for example, starting with Cypress Grove)
Daniel Woodrell (the Bayou trilogy, for example)
James Carlos Blake (for example, The Rules of Wolfe)
All of the above crime novelists are American and the last three (and possibly Winslow) are what I would call modern American noir.
Cheers, I shall definitely look into some of them x