May Reading Thread

[AE35Unit]

I love that story!

My word its dull. All about bell ringing and the mathematics of campanology, and all jolly cheerful. Ugh

 

[AE35Unit]

I bailed on the Dorothy L. Sayers book, just not my thing at all. What oh old chap, toodle pip.
Onto the next one in this volume, Gideon's Day (The first book in the Gideon of Scotland Yard series) by John Creasey who I'd not heard of.

 

[Danny McG]

by John Creasey who I'd not heard of

I only knew him as the writer of the 'Toff' books but he apparently used a lot of pen names

 

[Danny McG]

I only knew him as the writer of the 'Toff' books but he apparently used a lot of pen names
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Buggrit!
I could have used these names in the What's the connection game

 

[AE35Unit]

Oh for...the book is falling apart. A 100 page block, starting with Gideon's Day, just fell out, and its too heavy a book to hold together with tape or glue.

 

[AE35Unit]

I'm just gonna bin it. I've ordered a copy of Fuzz by EdMcbain, which is what I bought this anthology for. Luckily I only paid 50p for it so no great loss

 

[AE35Unit]

In the meantime I'm reading Carrie, Stephen King's first book

 

[CAOM]

"Three Comrades" is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. This book has been waiting for me for a long time.

 

[AE35Unit]

I only knew him as the writer of the 'Toff' books but he apparently used a lot of pen names
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Well I would be interested in his books so will look out for them in future, but sadly this one fell apart and hsd to go in the recycle bin

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Last night I read most of the January 1991 issue of Amazing Stories. I say "most" because it contained the first half of a serialized novel, and I don't have the issue with the other half, so I didn't read it. Of the rest of the issue, "Living in Sin" by Ian R. MacLeod was probably the best story.

 

[Dave]

I finished Mick Herron's Real Tigers and now reading Spook Street. I can't recommend this Slough House series enough. It's the characters that make it so good, but he really plays with you and your presumptions too.

 

[Toby Frost]

I read the first five or so Slough House books, but I felt it was getting a bit samey and stopped there. They were pretty entertaining, though. I get the feeling that Mick Herron is not a big fan of a well-known British political figure.

 

[Dave]

I've found each book to be better than the previous, but I think I will have a break from them after this forth in the series. It will be good to have something that I know I can go back to. There are several characters that could be based upon real politicians, but the books I've read, so far, were written before some of them came to power, so either he has great foresight, or just isn't a fan of any politicians. I think I can guess the one you think the Peter Judd character is referring too though, except that Peter Judd does have a brain.

 

[Dave Vicks]

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY,comic book.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Currently reading An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley.

I saw this in a theatre in London quite a few years ago. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[HareBrain]

Finished The Great Hunt, book 2 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.

It was OK. Better than I'd feared, not as good as I'd started to hope. It was long, but mostly (to my surprise) it felt only 10-20% too long rather than 50%. A lot of it was enjoyable and some of it was very effective. The world was pretty well put-together and most of the characters were reasonably engaging.

There were two main issues. It set up some very intriguing mysteries, but most of these didn't even come close to being answered in this book. And though one of the plot strands (the B plot) had an exciting conclusion, the A plot and the C plots both fell flat at the end to me.

I'm in two minds about whether to continue the series.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I have just started First Contact (1997) edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, an anthology of nineteen original stories on the theme.

 

[Dave Vicks]

NEIGHBORS, by Thomas Berger.1980.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

NEIGHBORS, by Thomas Berger.1980.

A strange and intriguing novel, sort of but not quite black comedy.

It was made into a semi-faithful movie of the same name with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd which was more comic and had a different ending, but was still strange.

 

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