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Have read 3 of Joe R Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard books while laid up with covid this week and am just starting the 4th, undemanding but nicely crafted fun.


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I’m (slowly) working through the Smiley books. Great stuff.


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Just started Dark Gods by TED Klein which I’ve been meaning to read for years.
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Prior to that I read a couple of...

Oh! I’ll have to get that. Really liked I Am Pilgrim!


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I think Artemis was one he wrote before The Martian but couldn’t get published. As soon as The Martian was a huge hit the publishers had a change of heart!


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Recently finished Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison, a book about a relationship between necrophiliac and a cannibal. Enjoyably disgusting. ...

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - I’m just over halfway through and loving it. Big and grand it’s got a bit of everything.


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I have heard good things about that


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I just finished this which was excellent. A gory horror story with a great heroine and a nice line in movie criticism...

The McGee books are a lot of fun. I’ve not read Williams but I think I’ll have to check him out!


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I feel like I need to be reading a book with Hawk in the title


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I do, although not signed up there as I have a big enough backlog on NetGalley [emoji23]


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Yeah I have a blog where I review crime fiction (CriminOlly.Wordpress.com) and contribute to a site that reviews horror and SF (scifiandscary.com)


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Think it’s not out until 14th Sept - I got an advance copy on NetGalley


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Read these two this week.

Harlem Shuffle is a really good crime novel set in 60s New York - great characters, especially the protagonist. As you’d expect from Colson Whitehead there’s a lot of...

Just finished ‘Harlem Shuffle’ by Colson Whitehead which was excellent. Now starting ‘The Man Who Died Twice’ by Richard Osman which is silly fun so far.


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I just finished Pat Cadigan’s novelisation of William Gibson’s unfilmed ‘Alien 3’ screenplay. Lots of fun and definitely recommended if you’re an ‘Aliens’ fan as it’s a decent sequel to that movie. ...

He did. And he puts it to frequent use!


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Have read a couple of George G Gilman’s Edge westerns from the 1970s this weekend. Horrifically violent and loads of fun. Also the graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer which was pretty chilling.

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Now reading Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby. Fantastic so far, just as good as Blacktop Wasteland


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Been meaning to read those for years. I must get to them.

I’ve been continuing my read through of Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct books. Up to number 49 now and still loving them.


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Yep. I think the film rights for Blacktop Wasteland have been sold as well


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Recently finished:
The Girls by Emma Cline - coming of age tale mixed with a fictionalised account of the Sharon Tate murder. Beautifully written but lacking in impact given the subject matter. I...

I really loved Blacktop Wasteland.


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Currently reading (belatedly it must be said), Helter Skelter. So far it seems to deserve its rep as one of the best true crime books.


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