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The GOT Book Club
- Thread starter chicoazul
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Er yeah sorry, I misspelled the title. It was an original hardback of The great Gatsby...
How does he compare to the likes of Jo Nesbo mate ?
Only read 3 up to now. As good if not better. Basically a Copenhagen cold case team (Department Q). Suggest starting with the first so you get to know the characters but you don't have too.
Cheers.
I’ve read all of Jo Nesbo’s stuff and his last two books have been disappointing tbh, so I’m always looking for Scandi authors that I haven’t read
Cheers.
I’ve read all of Jo Nesbo’s stuff and his last two books have been disappointing tbh, so I’m always looking for Scandi authors that I haven’t read
Ps - Have you read anything by a Scottish author called - Stuart Macbride ?
“ Scottish Noir “ - Sgt Logan Macrae series.
His books are brilliant, dark, very well written and have a massive vein of ultra black humour running through them.
Also have a look the books of Neil Parsons ( ex music journalist )
The D/C Max Wolfe series.
All based in London, very dark ( again ) but wonderfully written.
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Reading John Harrison's viriconium books as a collected version and prob got as far as I'll go with them - written in the 70s and a milestone in Dying Earth fiction, really strong counterpoint to the formulaic fantasy stuff that was starting to dominate around that time. Too much, though, as he is deliberately showing his arse to the mainstream and the books could have been better IMHO if he wasn't concerned with staking out a position.
Skilled writer though - heavyweight style and feel for language, very immersive, but not enough of the nuts and bolts to drive a story (the short Viriconium ones are brilliant). He turned his back on SF after this and wrote all sorts of other stuff - Climbers is very good.
Skilled writer though - heavyweight style and feel for language, very immersive, but not enough of the nuts and bolts to drive a story (the short Viriconium ones are brilliant). He turned his back on SF after this and wrote all sorts of other stuff - Climbers is very good.
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just been blasting through the 1st three books in the John Covey series by Nelson DeMille.
Three very good books and I will probably work through the remaining four books in the series. The only downside I have seen so far was that book one was let down by a 'Hollywood' ending. Overall though, they are worth reading if you like a decent detective story.
Three very good books and I will probably work through the remaining four books in the series. The only downside I have seen so far was that book one was let down by a 'Hollywood' ending. Overall though, they are worth reading if you like a decent detective story.
Neither. I'll add them to my list of authors to check out
Anyone read John Connolly? I'm 160 pages into a book of 440 pages and I'm losing the will to live. Seriously thinking of giving it up. I don't like his writing style one bit.
Book number one in the Logan Macrae series by Stuart Macbride - Cold Granite, will have you hooked, I guarantee it !
McBride is really good.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Read this a few weeks' ago. The plot is the depiction of the future and evolution of humanity, from the present day (actually the 1930s when the book was published) to the eventual end of Man.
Very interesting in most part, a bit dated in the technological aspects but that was to be expected. The author was from the Wirral, haven't seen anything else by him, has anyone ?
Apparently there's been a film adaptation, but I think it would have been difficult to fit everything in, anyone seen it ?
I bought it secondhand years' ago and if you see a copy it's worth a read, if only for the imaginings of the future of the human race - the book covers millions of years.
Very interesting in most part, a bit dated in the technological aspects but that was to be expected. The author was from the Wirral, haven't seen anything else by him, has anyone ?
Apparently there's been a film adaptation, but I think it would have been difficult to fit everything in, anyone seen it ?
I bought it secondhand years' ago and if you see a copy it's worth a read, if only for the imaginings of the future of the human race - the book covers millions of years.