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  • SkippedSkipped Frets: 2371
    Am reading the most recent Harlan Coben (Fool Me Once). Not bad.
    Finally back to reading fiction after a long period in which I seemed to identify with people in New York (sales of fiction crashed in 2001) who seemed to be saying:
    Fiction?
    Fiction?
    Are you having a laugh?

    But it has to be "undemanding" and very well written. Perfect for bedtime reading. And that sometimes means wasting time reading the first couple of chapters of very disappointing novels.

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    Does itmention Windsor High School? That's the local school my kids didn't go to but apparently Bobby did.
    Robert Plant biography. 

    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    Right,I'll stop going this in a moment but just to complete @Skarloey 's summer reading: picture on an aire overlooking vineyards ( ie there are some lovely free places to stop) and what £500 worth of damage to a bumper looks like  :/ Lesson here is not driving too much and start to lose concentration.

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    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • xSkarloeyxSkarloey Frets: 2962
    @EricTheWeary ;

    The aire looks good. 

    Shame about the bumper.

    Anyway best not dwell on it. 

    Cheers mate. 
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  • Dave_VaderDave_Vader Frets: 359
    Roland said:
    @Dave_Vader 's book. So far it's a bit too close to reality for comfort
    Oh thanks Roland, I've been hearing that a lot from musicians. :)

    I'm reading the Rock and Roll Diaries Series by Jamie Scallion - it's got a few moments like that too.
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7672
    Paul_C said:
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    The Steel Remains was good, I may well pick up the others.

     I'm currently enjoying Saturn's Children - Charles Stross.


    Saturn's Children very good, one of those books where knowing you've only read the first of many books by the author is a cause for celebration :)

    Next up it's time for The Song of Phaid the Gambler - Mick Farren.


    . . . which was quite good.

    I'm now re-reading Unto Leviathan (also published as Ship Of Fools) by Richard Paul Russo.
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 27587
    Fiction - the second Jean Le Flambeur book (having already read the third thanks to Amazon mis-describing them).

    Non-fiction: Woodshop Dust Control
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • That's a particular bug-bear of mine Andi, it annoys me how hard it is to find out which order a series of books was written in. It doesn't feel like it should be anywhere as tricky as it is.
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  • dafuzzdafuzz Frets: 1522
    edited September 2016
    Just finished Casino Royale

    Went to the daughter's school fete and, knowing nobody and resisting the booze stall (unbelieveable how many middle-class women were getting lashed!) bought that and a couple of other books from the book stall, and read about half of it leant up against a goal post until it was time to go home.

    Bloody good read actually. Might plough through the rest!

    EDIT: reminds me actually - there was a bloke playing goalie at the other end of the pitch and kids were paying 20p for five penalties or something. This fucking guy was clearly living out his England World Cup fantasy - he was in his full Sunday team kit and had the flash boots and gloves and not a single kid's shot went in. They were primary school age and the 20-something prancing pillock was leaping across the goal like he was being scouted for the premiership. Absolute tosser.
    All practice and no theory
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 27587
    That's a particular bug-bear of mine Andi, it annoys me how hard it is to find out which order a series of books was written in. It doesn't feel like it should be anywhere as tricky as it is.
    I probbly should have checked on Wikipedia or similar, but when Amazon say one book is the first, and it is, and another is the second and another the third, you'd think they'd get them right. I've emailed them to say, but from the reviews it looks like they knew back in May (I bought the 2nd/3rd in April but took ages to get to reading it).

    I'm sure I'll still enjoy the remaining one but it is a bit irksome finding out now why there was a bit of a jump to the last book from the first. There's a fair bit of jumping around anyway so it wasn't obvious at the time.

    Ah well. :)
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  • This is the last book I read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0076Q1GW2/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1473190110&sr=8-1
    The Last Policeman - fantastic modern noir crimes drama, with a great setting. Loved it.
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  • quarkyquarky Frets: 2777
    The Aquariums of Pyongyang
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    I am about halfway through at the moment. Harrowing read about life inside a North Korea prison camp, but I think Nothing to Envy provided a better picture about NK life in general.
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7672
    edited September 2016

    Paul_C said:
    Paul_C said:
    Paul_C said:
    The Steel Remains was good, I may well pick up the others.

     I'm currently enjoying Saturn's Children - Charles Stross.


    Saturn's Children very good, one of those books where knowing you've only read the first of many books by the author is a cause for celebration

    Next up it's time for The Song of Phaid the Gambler - Mick Farren.


    . . . which was quite good.

    I'm now re-reading Unto Leviathan (also published as Ship Of Fools) by Richard Paul Russo.

    . . . which wasn't bad at all.

    I'm currently finishing Empty Space, the third and probably my favourite book of the Empty Space trilogy, by M John Harrison.

    I love that so many reviews on Goodreads confess that they had no idea what it was all about, for me that's part of the fun.

    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • The Death Of Marco Pantani. We all know about the drugs/pro cycling thing, but still an eye opener.
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  • Just finishing The Hardest Day by Alfred Price. It's an in-depth study of the Battle Of Britain on August 18th 1940. It was the costliest day on both sides of the conflict.
    I've always been fascinated by the Battle Of Britain and have read A Summer For Heroes by Wood and Dempster, and The Most Dangerous Enemy by Stephen Bungay. I think I'll try to get hold of The Narrow Margin (also by Wood and Dempster: A Summer For Heroes is apparently a much condensed version of it).
    I'd be interested in any other recommendations for books on the subject.
    My wife asked me to stop singing Wonderwall.
    I said maybe.....
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12314
    Just finished Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Interesting story but it's written in a slightly weird stilted style. I'd swear it had been translated from another language but the author is English. Hadn't heard of the film version until I saw the book, must check it out... anyone seen it? 
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7672

    I've moved from weird sci-fi to Swedish detective fiction:

    The Laughing Policeman by Sjöwall and Wahlöö (Book 4 of the Martin Beck series)
     
    The BBC are broadcasting some (or all) of the Beck books at the moment, but I haven't seen any.
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • I'm reading Abomination, by Gary Whitta.
    He wrote the Book of Eli and I've followed him in a gaming capacity for years as he used to be editor in chief at PC Gamer and has appeared on several Podcasts I listened to.
    It's his first published Novel and I am loving it. I'm about 2/3 of the way through now and it's a real page turner.
    It's a medieval setting with a magic type twist, the descriptive work and scene setting is amazing and his writing style seems to fit perfectly with my reading taste and for me it's the best fantasy setting book I've read since Waylander.
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  • quarkyquarky Frets: 2777
    Finished this:
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    Dick is a great author, and the book is no disappointment. Great source material for the film.

    And this:
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    Depressingly good, in that it sums up the problems with humanity so well, and our likely failure to be able to do anything about it.

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  • quarkyquarky Frets: 2777
    Currently reading Letters from a Stoic:
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