Lie Forrit 2 hrs 34 mins Posted October 9 Posted October 9 Cover Your Tracks, by Claire Askew, crime novel based in Edinburgh. It’s won a lot of plaudits, compatible to Ian Rankin one critic says, gripping stuff.
Cade Posted October 9 Posted October 9 Working my way through The Expanse series. Many people label it as "Game of Thrones in space" and not only due to the political factions and brutality. It was written by GRR Martin's two main assistant writers who got sick of him not writing anything so teamed up to write their own books under a shared pseudonym. Makes you wonder where the real talent lay in the GoT series......
Tazio Posted October 9 Posted October 9 11 hours ago, dougal said: Such a shame it was her only novel until an underwhelming 2nd decades later. If only she’d stuck at that.
Shanks said no Posted October 9 Posted October 9 New author for me, half way through and beginning to really enjoy it
dougal Posted October 10 Posted October 10 11 hours ago, Tazio said: Such a shame it was her only novel until an underwhelming 2nd decades later. If only she’d stuck at that. Well, that puts to rest any thoughts i had of purchasing the follow up. It's a shame because it was such a good book and I can't believe it had taken me so long to read it.
Haken Posted October 29 Posted October 29 On 25/06/2025 at 08:11, dougal said: I've just started this guy's second book, The Sign of the Cross. Almost 100 pages in, but already starting to feel that it's for people who find Dan Brown too intellectual.
Haken Posted October 29 Posted October 29 On 09/10/2025 at 12:35, dougal said: Despite being 'forced' to read this for my English O-Level, this is one of my favourite books. Strangely, I've never been tempted to read her other effort.
dougal Posted October 29 Posted October 29 6 hours ago, Haken said: I've just started this guy's second book, The Sign of the Cross. Almost 100 pages in, but already starting to feel that it's for people who find Dan Brown too intellectual. They're very easy going. I've got a ton of paperbacks and I just work my way through them and that one was one I picked up years ago.
dougal Posted October 29 Posted October 29 5 hours ago, Haken said: Despite being 'forced' to read this for my English O-Level, this is one of my favourite books. Strangely, I've never been tempted to read her other effort. I'd never read it and picked it up quite recently and was really glad I did. Thought it was excellent.
Haken Posted October 30 Posted October 30 11 hours ago, dougal said: They're very easy going. I've got a ton of paperbacks and I just work my way through them and that one was one I picked up years ago. The SIgn of the Cross is easy going. The writing is terrible, but the idea is decent enough for me to crack on with. It's a bit of a respite from the hefty fancy nonsense that I've been reading.
John Findlay Posted November 6 Posted November 6 On 29/10/2025 at 13:58, Haken said: Despite being 'forced' to read this for my English O-Level, this is one of my favourite books. Strangely, I've never been tempted to read her other effort. Decent film version too, with Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch.
Libertonian_II Posted yesterday at 00:44 Posted yesterday at 00:44 Halcyon Years by Alistair Reynolds, one of my favourite sci fi authors
Maroon Raccoon Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago Not long finished Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. It's short on laughs. I was convinced for a while that the new Kathryn Bigelow movie A House of Dynamite on Netflix was a movie adaptation of Jacobsen's book because the premise is so similar, but apparently it is not.
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