I'm off on my first proper holiday in years and looking forward to reading a book by the pool (can't remember the last time I did that)!
Has anyone read any good books lately?
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I'm off on my first proper holiday in years and looking forward to reading a book by the pool (can't remember the last time I did that)!
Has anyone read any good books lately?
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Yes, loads, but give us a clue Billy! Jack Reacher or Wuthering Heights?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocket Man
The Spy and The Traitor
Specifically for Rocket Men:
Carrying the Fire
The Last Man on the Moon
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
by Anna Fifield
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Me by Elton John
I like Murakimi and I've just finished 'Klara and the Sun by kazuo ishiguro. Other favourite authors are Hilary Mantell, Madeline Miller and Margaret Atwood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linocut
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David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Ben aaronovitch Rivers of London book 1
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Too many to list them all but all the following are must reads:
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Malice Aforethought (Francis Iles)
Rebecca
Rogue Male (Geoffrey Household)
Where Eagles Dare
Day Of The Jackal
The Odessa File
Watership Down
Piece Of Cake (Derek Robinson)
Enigma (Robert Harris)
There's a long-running 'books' thread -
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...books-recently
It's been going since 2005 & has almost 2400 posts.
Have you read “Back in Black” (?) by Hilary Mantel? About a medium, is she fake, genuine, haunted… brilliant bookQuote:
Originally Posted by Rocket Man
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A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Ones I've enjoyed recently
A Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Maybe not to be read near a body of water.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe as recommended already.
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, not his best but still very readable.
An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn. A classic professor and his father follow the trail of Odysseus.
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd. A brilliant if harrowing account of a journalist during the Balkans war.
The Day of the Jackal byFrederick Forsyth. A really well plotted thriller.
All The Pretty Horse by Cormac McCarthy. All of his novels are great, but I find some of his writing too bleak. This is a great story, with beautiful prose.
Dune by Frank Herbert. A good time to read this, before the new film is released.
For pure escapism The Wolf's Hour by Robert R McCammon.....one of my favourite holiday books.
Dolgun - check out the reviews: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dolgun-Alexander/dp/0006342825
Or for something a bit lighter the Rivers of London series is very entertaining.