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  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    BAIN123 wrote:
    Finally finished Empire of the Sun (a very good if heavy read) and started For Whom the Bell Tolls - my first Hemingway book.

    Never For Whom the Bell Tolls though I love the film. I had to read The Old Man and the Sea in school and that was my only Hemingway so far.

    I'm still making my way through The Luminaries. It's an odd one and I'm going through a phase of enjoying it again. Just started O Jerusalem, another of Laurie R. King's Mary Russel stories, she certainly knows how to grab the reader.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited April 2014 Posts: 12,459
    I did love The Old Man and the Sea although it has been decades since I read it.

    I will try the Laurie R. King series again, Sandy. :)

    I have heard mixed reviews about The Luminaries, mainly about how it is written (the actual literary construction of it changes as it progresses).

    And yes, I love Suchet as Poirot! I will get that one. I've read every Agatha Christie.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I am reading this thread at the moment. Very boring.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,459
    I-)

    Oh, what was that? Just Thunderfinger again saying something ...

    Do you read much, dear Thunderfinger? I can recommend a Bond one for you: Live and Let Die. :D
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,831
    Usually, I read words.

    Okay, bad joke.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    4EverBonded wrote:
    I-)

    Oh, what was that? Just Thunderfinger again saying something ...

    Do you read much, dear Thunderfinger? I can recommend a Bond one for you: Live and Let Die. :D

    Read all the Flemings ,dear. And yes,I read alot ,both books, comics and new stuff on the internet. My favourite reading though, is always your posts. :-c
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited April 2014 Posts: 11,189
    I'm trying to read things other things besides Bond books. Hemingway has no connection to Bond in any shape or form does it? ;)
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    edited April 2014 Posts: 7,653
    BAIN123 wrote:
    I'm trying to read things other things besides Bond books. Hemingway has no connection to Bond in any shape or form does it? ;)

    LTK Hemingway House O:-)
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    Now reading Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Paper Men by William Golding.

    Very good author, I understand why he received a Nobel prize.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. A history of the Plantagenet dynasty in a very readable style. Looking forward to his follow up which charts the War of the Roses and the rise of the Tudors.
  • barryt007barryt007
    edited July 2014 Posts: 19,339
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    I'm about a third of the way through it.
  • FLeiterFLeiter
    Posts: 315
    At the suggestions of some of the members here, I've read two of the Barry Eisler novels with John Rain. They were entertaining. Not as good as Ian Fleming. I've ordered the remaining novels to have some fun summer reads. I can recommend the Martin Gilbert books on Winston Churchill. At times I was frustrated with some of Churchill's actions/inactions and attitudes, but then hindsight is 20/20 and who knows how people react with a million pistols to your head.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I am reading Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess. A fictionalized biography of Shakespeare. Maybe a masterpiece.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,506
    barryt007 wrote: »
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    I'm about a third of the way through it.

    That must be a heck of a read barry007?
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,459
    Lancaster007 wrote: »
    The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. A history of the Plantagenet dynasty in a very readable style. Looking forward to his follow up which charts the War of the Roses and the rise of the Tudors.

    That definitely interest me. Thanks!

    And what is Paper Men about, Thunderfinger?

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    The Paper Men is about many things, like all good books, but it is built around an aging, drunken and famous English author, who gets stalked by an American litterary professor who wants to write his biography.
  • valentinzukovskyvalentinzukovsky
    Posts: 503
    Finished Gone Girl a few days ago. still waiting for my mind to un f*ck itself.
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Posts: 3,157
    I have recently finished "Murder of Quality" by LeCarré, and I'm now halfway through Young Bond "BloodFever".
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I am reading 7 Days by Deon Meyer.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Inferno by Dan Brown. Typical Brown thriller featuring Langdon again.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Inferno by Dan Brown. Typical Brown thriller featuring Langdon again.
    Worst DB I've read. Got really pissed off with it in the end. Probably put me off reading anything else he does.
    Currently reading The Forbidden Tomb by Chris Kuzneski (2nd in his The Hunters series - book one, I think, has just been optioned for a film). It's okay so far (probably his best to date) but still not sure about him as a writer. Much prefer Scott Mariani. The Ben Hope books are awesome (and British!).
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Inferno by Dan Brown. Typical Brown thriller featuring Langdon again.

    I preferred it easily over The lost symbol that was an utter crapfest, and Inferno had at least some interesting literary backbone with Dante’s Inferno. And Brown actually stepped away from his usual literary tricks to try and do something else with Langdon having a bit of a Jason Bourne black out. The ending of the book was that of an average thriller but quite a few parts in Florence were very instructive and interesting.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    edited November 2014 Posts: 1,874
    Just finished The Forbidden Tomb by Chris Kuzneski - and it is his best so far! Even a few shocks and surprises at the end. Now on to Scott Mariani's The Nemesis Program featuring Ben Hope.
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Posts: 3,157
    Just finished LeCarré's "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold", such a masterpiece, now I've started Full Monty. Never watched the movie, to be honest, but I'm told it is hilarious.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    I did not know there was a book, The Full Monty. I'll have to check it out; I thoroughly loved the film!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    INNOCENCE by Dean Koontz For some reason this one reminds me a bit of Neil Gaiman.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    Posts: 4,116
    This forum :D ...just read ..or listened on audio The Cut by umm ...its in the car..but it was pretty good. Personally I didn't like the hero but he was well written and that's not a jab at the writer ..enjoyed the book very much... just I found the character to be too self centered and that was the point. Oh and I prefer audio so I can "film" the book as I "read" it
  • valentinzukovskyvalentinzukovsky
    Posts: 503
    Dead Spy Running- Jon Stock
    Casino Royale
    Echo Burning - Lee Child
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,831
    The Saga of the Volsungs. Nice little read before Christmas. I usually read seasonal stuff.
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