@RAFUH
This is one incredible book and I think you’d love it.
It’s so much more than an end of the world vampire novel, it really is an outstanding book and beautifully written - the author is a Professor of English.
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The GOT Book Club
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@RAFUH
This is one incredible book and I think you’d love it.
It’s so much more than an end of the world vampire novel, it really is an outstanding book and beautifully written - the author is a Professor of English.
I've read the trilogy and they were excellent.
gonetomorrow
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This sounds like a job for Bernard Cornwell! Try the Sharpe series.
Wife's hooked on them.
Philw
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Read some Terry Pratchett if you haven't. Only 40+ books to read from!
Woolverhampton_Blue
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Finished A Clockwork Orange today. Wasn’t brilliant but the language alone made it an enjoyable enough read. Never seen the film so will give that a go this weekend so I can compare.
Next read is Captain Corelli’s Mandolin just because I found a copy at my parents and I’d heard of it.
Next read is Captain Corelli’s Mandolin just because I found a copy at my parents and I’d heard of it.
Woolverhampton_Blue
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My Dad gave me an old copy of this a few years ago and strongly suggested I read it - it’s still collecting dust somewhere. Will find it out and give it a go after your review
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Try this, 1st of a trilogy.
This is a good precis of the book.
In praise of Robert Holdstock
David Barnett: Holdstock, who has died aged just 61, proved that fantasy could be classic literature
bluebrotha77
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very good book about irish rangers getting kidnapped by the west side boys in sierra loeone and the subsequent mission to save them by the sas and the paratroopers.
@RAFUH
Don't forget the tv series - Sharpe made flesh...and Sharpes Waterloo ( the finale) is a pretty good representation of the ebb and flow of the definitve battle of the last 205 yrs
Boney wins this and all history changes - real Harry Turtledove stuff, who is worth a read as well
Start off with Guns of the South and then his whole American Civil war...WW1, WW2 series...all from a US point of view
gonetomorrow
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Wife's got the entire Sharpe series lined up on the recorder. Christmas could be a long and bloody battle.
Black Belt Jones
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Love those books - the second one Lavondyss especially. Definitely stand out from the crowd of fantasy books, uses a lot of trad English folklore but basically just a really good writer - knew how to capture the magic of our landscape and 13% forest cover.Try this, 1st of a trilogy.
This is a good precis of the book.
In praise of Robert Holdstock
David Barnett: Holdstock, who has died aged just 61, proved that fantasy could be classic literaturewww.theguardian.com
random
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Just finished Gone to Dust by Matt Goldman.
Suburban divorcee Maggie Somerville was found murdered in her bedroom, her body covered with the dust from hundreds of emptied vacuum cleaner bags, all potential DNA evidence obscured by the calculating killer.
Well worth reading if you are into detective/private eye books.
Also made a nice change that the hero of the book didn't have the usual cliches (booze, woman magnet, dead ex-partners etc), just comes across as a normal guy trying to figure stuff out. On the subject of that, half way through the book I had the villain sussed out, then found out I was wrong
Will definitely be reading some more in this series.
Suburban divorcee Maggie Somerville was found murdered in her bedroom, her body covered with the dust from hundreds of emptied vacuum cleaner bags, all potential DNA evidence obscured by the calculating killer.
Well worth reading if you are into detective/private eye books.
Also made a nice change that the hero of the book didn't have the usual cliches (booze, woman magnet, dead ex-partners etc), just comes across as a normal guy trying to figure stuff out. On the subject of that, half way through the book I had the villain sussed out, then found out I was wrong
Will definitely be reading some more in this series.
The only thing that I thought was 'iffy' was that a small town police force would hire a PI rather than pass the investigation over to a larger force with more resources (unless that is something that happens in the US) Apart from that this was a very good book.
Just googled it. Looks great!