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And the constant borrowing of atmosphere and style from Dickens/etc classics was outrageous, made worse because the author actually references it directly when you've already spotted it. Bah!
I've got "A Man Called Ove" to read next.
Slow Horses
Think I read that in one sitting last when I had it! Very readable, heart-warming-verging-on-overly-sentimental stuff. I'm sure everyone knows a miserable old sod like Ove!
Just finished Lincoln In The Bardo - definitely one of the cleverest and most original books I've ever read, but took a little while to get into it as it's so bonkers! Fascinating approach to historical fiction though, if you like that sort of thing.
I'm now onto https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27824826-the-dry
I'm only a few chapters in and not fully immersed yet but there are a few glimmers of hope that it will be worth reading.
I'd forgot how much fun it is to read, I read for 30 mins or so in the canteen before work and have had people speak to me about stuff and I haven't even noticed them, not out of blanking them but Ive so deep in my own world that I miss out on all the boring football chat and moaning about how crap work is. Bonus!
American Gods is probably Gaiman's best book, but if you enjoyed it you'll also enjoy Neverwhere and Stardust. Neither is quite as dark as Gods but they are, nonetheless, both excellent reads.
If you like dark weird worlds then the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake is superb.
I only ask because I was misled into reading the book "Gormenghast" first, when of course I should have started with "Titus Groan".
It didn't ultimately spoil my enjoyment of them, but it would have been better to have read them in the right sequence!
I remember the BBC doing a dramatisation for TV, but it met with a pretty derisory reception from the critics, most of whom clearly hadn't read the books - shame, really.
Pretty much one of his Logan McRae novels with similar but different characters,although the odd character from said McRae novels do turn up throughout the book.
Enjoying it so far.
I'd previously finished the two latest Rebus novels, and as good as it is to read novels set in your local city by a local author, they just aren't as polished or as gripping as Jeffrey Deaver or Jo Nesbo.
On A Good Read on R4 they had A Very English Scandal so just reserved that at the library. The story of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal which is something I half remember from my yoof.
To be honest, I am about 50% of the way though and don't buy the theory behind it.
"Prokaryotes display intelligence" or matter=energy and cells respond to external sensory stimuli therefore they are influenced by thought? Divining for water works, or rife machines cure cancer, etc?
A shame because the conclusions (that positive thoughts can make a positive difference to you life) do have some validity, but not because of that.
It reminds me a little of some of M John Harrison's work so maybe he's a Ballard fan.
Other than that it's odd and occasionally silly and feels very much of it's time, as a lot of Science Fiction seems to.
It was written in 1935.