What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Le caree's twentieth book. I read them all and enjoyed every one of them.

Haim

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Just arrived with the next 2 from the Amazon..........................................................

Proper champion

diccus

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
Just arrived with the next 2 from the Amazon..........................................................

Proper champion

diccus

Good one Diccus, you will probably benefit by reading Wallender books in sequence. I though Firewall was the poorest of his books. Faceless Killers is not bad - it was the penguin wot did it.

Steve

Proper champion Pingu and Wallender. Bloomin' heck if Firewall was poor i'm in for a rare treat.


Marp, Marp

Diccus

Robert Rankin - The Sprouts of Wrath

Swedish reporter/writer Jan Guillou's latest thriller 'Madame Terror'. It's about the not totally implausible idea that the palestinians has bougt a submarine from the russians and therefore changed the power balance in their area as the Israelis doesn't have much of a navy.

Just started it.

JohanR

One of the best writers today in Israel.

Haim

.......... and now this one



Diccus

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost by Johnathan Fenby. Excellent read and well researched.

Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri

"Recoil" Andy McNab. I know, I know, very low brow, but it was a Christmas gift! And is actually a good yarn!

Chris, I think Andy McNab is one of best thriller writers of our time. I particulary like his linear representation of time in the action scenes. If a person get shot down and dies it takes a couple of seconds (not half a page as in some other thrillers) and then the action continues relentlessy as it would do if it was for real.

Me myself is currently reading William Lashner's 'Fatal Flaw' that so far has been very good. His first book, 'Hostile Witness' was one of the best legal thrillers I've read, the second one 'Veritas' was probably the worst! In this one he's back in form.

JohanR

Johan
I agree. The story is propelled forward at a helluva speed. Some of his turns of phrase make me smile too.

Ian Rankin - Black and Blue

Slowly but surely getting through all the Rebus novels.

I have not read any of Andy McNabb's fiction works but have read Bravo Two Zero (excellent) and Immediate Action (not so good IMO).
I found Immediate Action to be a bit lacking (as if he had used up the really exciting bits of his SAS life in the first book). What fictional books by him are recommended?

More or less everyone of the ones with Nick Stone as the 'hero'. Why don't start by reading them in chronoligal order. The first one should then be 'Remot Control'

Ok, I think the one where Nick was in Finland and Russia in the winter, 'Firewall' (?) is maybe the best.

JohanR

A world that I recognise, albeit one that is lost forever. Is that such a bad thing? I cannot decide, but I do know that once I've turned the last page I'll feel a sense of loss.

White Bicycles - Joe Boyd.

Before this book was given to me, I can honestly say I had never heard of Joe Boyd. It was only after I read it that I realised his fingerprints were all over parts of my record collection, including some stuff that will hopefully appear in his next book.

A thoroughly interesting book that I would thorougly recommend, as it covers a very wide cross section of music from jazz and blues through to folk and psychedelia. Even so it is unlikely that I will rush out and buy stuff by the Incredible String Band. Some of the artists music has aged better than others. Some you probably had to be there, to retain any real affection for.

Regards

Nic

Re. Andy McNab (not his real name). Bravo two zero contains many inconsistencies and downright lies his other works are ghost written. His name sells but someone else writes them. In short, all is not what it seems with our Andy.

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White Bicycles - Joe Boyd.

Even so it is unlikely that I will rush out and buy stuff by the Incredible String Band.

Regards

Nic

5000 Spirits Or The Layer Of The Onion and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter are two of the best records in my collection - I like all 14 ISB albums, but these two are exceptional. They were a big influence on the Beatles according to Paul McCartney. Original ISB member Carl Palmer (who departed after the debut release) went on to make the super Moyshe Mcstiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Purple Heart.

Anyway Nic, is Boyd's book one I should read?

Thanks, Rotf

I'm going through one of those intellectual phases, but it is bound to wear off.

ROFT,

To be honest I assumed you would already have a well thumbed copy in the house, knowing your musical taste. I found that I could not put it down, and it was not really my era being a '61 baby.

Loved his descriptions of the Newport Jazz festival, I have the DVD Jazz on a summer's from '58, which is great and very evocative of a bygone era. The range of people he worked with, or met on his journey through the musical business will have you drooling.

After reading the book I did a trawl through u Tube for clips of artists I did not have records by, such as ISB and Fairport Convention, but they simply did not grab me. I will look again at your recommendations again though, sometimes it is hard to "get it". My mates think the same way about a lot of my jazz assortment.

Amazon beckons I suspect. Enjoy.

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by ROTF:

Anyway Nic, is Boyd's book one I should read?

Thanks, Rotf