kingantti1874 Posted March 21 Posted March 21 20 minutes ago, dougal said: finished all of them brilliant. Blake crouch is another brilliant author, recursion and dark matter are great books.
dougal Posted March 21 Posted March 21 5 hours ago, kingantti1874 said: finished all of them brilliant. Blake crouch is another brilliant author, recursion and dark matter are great books. They're not my usual genre of choice but I'd seen so many good reviews I borrowed a copy from a friend. Think they might have them all, so will give them a bash. I've read Dark Matter and the first of the Wayward Pines novels and thoroughly enjoyed them both. Got the 2nd and 3rd Wayward Pines books to read.
PortyJambo Posted March 28 Posted March 28 (edited) Love John Connolly's Charlie Parker series of books, and have the latest 2 in my to-read pile. Enjoying this one at the moment, and still have his latest, Children of Eve, to look forward to. Not read any update on it since it was announced, but hopefully the Colin Farrell and Bryan Cranston led project to make a TV series of them is still in the works. Connolly confirmed in an interview that the plan is for Farrell to play Parker if it goes ahead (can definitely see him as Parker). Edited March 28 by PortyJambo
Dirty Deeds Posted April 9 Posted April 9 startling that we have Putin apologists on this forum when you consider the murders he's responsible in this country, let alone elsewhere.
will-i-am-a-jambo Posted April 16 Posted April 16 (edited) On 17/02/2026 at 14:56, BlueRiver said: It's an interesting one. I went and got Tiger and Triumph which are first in the chronology but well later in the actual publication order. Didn't realise till after I'd bought them. Not sure if that's the best way to read them or not but some online recommended going chronology. I started reading the Sharpe series a while back but kinda stopped as was moving house etc. Its better to start chronologically imo as you will notice references later on even though the earlier back stories were published later. I got as far as Rifles (ironically the first one in the TV series) before my hiatus but hope to return soon as l found each book enthralling! EDIT: l recommend to read the historical stuff at the back as it explains where the phrase 'a flash in a pan' comes from - l love learning 'useless' facts like that. 😂 Edited April 16 by will-i-am-a-jambo
BlueRiver Posted April 16 Posted April 16 1 hour ago, will-i-am-a-jambo said: I started reading the Sharpe series a while back but kinda stopped as was moving house etc. Its better to start chronologically imo as you will notice references later on even though the earlier back stories were published later. I got as far as Rifles (ironically the first one in the TV series) before my hiatus but hope to return soon as l found each book enthralling! EDIT: l recommend to read the historical stuff at the back as it explains where the phrase 'a flash in a pan' comes from - l love learning 'useless' facts like that. 😂 I just finished Sharpe's Tiger a couple of days ago! Pretty decent and I found copies of the next two in the India trilogy for a couple of quid so going to crack on I reckon! Definitely will be too. I like that he'd added some of the actual historical event at the back of Tiger and explained where he diverged for creative reasons. All in all, fun read and looking forward to more of them.
pharmaceutical01 Posted April 16 Posted April 16 About the West Point graduates from 1966 who went on to serve in Vietnam....very interesting well-written book
will-i-am-a-jambo Posted April 17 Posted April 17 15 hours ago, BlueRiver said: I just finished Sharpe's Tiger a couple of days ago! Pretty decent and I found copies of the next two in the India trilogy for a couple of quid so going to crack on I reckon! Definitely will be too. I like that he'd added some of the actual historical event at the back of Tiger and explained where he diverged for creative reasons. All in all, fun read and looking forward to more of them. Glad you are enjoying the series so far 👍. I was meant to add they also explain the historical reference and true story of each of the battles but some of the stories are fictitious. A good place to look for cheap books is on Vinted if you don't already do that. Enjoy!
BlueRiver Posted April 17 Posted April 17 6 hours ago, will-i-am-a-jambo said: Glad you are enjoying the series so far 👍. I was meant to add they also explain the historical reference and true story of each of the battles but some of the stories are fictitious. A good place to look for cheap books is on Vinted if you don't already do that. Enjoy! Yeah I do the same. To save on space and rack up the odd bit of cash here and there i tend to sell bundles of my own read pile on those kinds of sites too. Keeps me on top of clutter!
Bigsmak Posted April 20 Posted April 20 On 06/04/2026 at 05:55, dougal said: Just finished DCC last week and picked this up to continue - What an easy read for a geek like me.. Really enjoyable - Q - where are you getting the books? Kindle? Actual copy or other ? They are expensive in Hardback¬
dougal Posted April 20 Posted April 20 13 hours ago, Bigsmak said: Just finished DCC last week and picked this up to continue - What an easy read for a geek like me.. Really enjoyable - Q - where are you getting the books? Kindle? Actual copy or other ? They are expensive in Hardback¬ A work colleague has them all in hardback, so im just borrowing them. She went to a talk that the author did in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago as well. He confirmed that there would be 10 books in total (9 actually with the last one being 2 books). Also said he was talking to several people with regards to selling the rights for TV or film adaptation.
Bigsmak Posted April 21 Posted April 21 13 hours ago, dougal said: A work colleague has them all in hardback, so im just borrowing them. She went to a talk that the author did in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago as well. He confirmed that there would be 10 books in total (9 actually with the last one being 2 books). Also said he was talking to several people with regards to selling the rights for TV or film adaptation. ooooo Thats interesting to hear - I am really enjoying them... (for a TV recommendation that is like this - Try Solo Leveling - its a lot of fun)
PortyJambo Posted April 30 Posted April 30 Just finished reading this one. They're wildly improbable but enjoyable enough spy capers (this is 11th in series). This one is set almost exclusively in Edinburgh which made it more interesting though, and he mostly got things right apart from a few unlikely trips where it seemed he just wanted to include tourist recognisable places even although the trip from A to B wouldn't go that way.
biglaff Posted April 30 Posted April 30 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. Just finished reading it , and my God what a book. Also very apt considering the way the world is heading if we are not careful. Won the booker prize and easy to see why.
Cade Posted April 30 Posted April 30 Ohhhhh the internet is afire over the ending to this one. Nae spoilers from me.
Chairman of the Bored Posted May 7 Posted May 7 Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. All about an American High School shooting massacre. Superbly written.
JWL Posted May 14 Posted May 14 Parlabane back 30 years after his first appearance in Quite Ugly One Morning
PortyJambo Posted May 14 Posted May 14 (edited) 46 minutes ago, JWL said: Parlabane back 30 years after his first appearance in Quite Ugly One Morning Loved Brookmyre's early books, some of my favourite reads even now. Glad he's gone back to a Parlabane story again. I can even forgive him being a St Midden fan... Edited May 14 by PortyJambo
JWL Posted May 14 Posted May 14 2 hours ago, PortyJambo said: Loved Brookmyre's early books, some of my favourite reads even now. Glad he's gone back to a Parlabane story again. I can even forgive him being a St Midden fan... One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night is still one of the funniest books I've read.
BlueRiver Posted May 14 Posted May 14 9 hours ago, Haken said: Just bought this last week. How is it?
Haken Posted May 15 Posted May 15 9 hours ago, BlueRiver said: Just bought this last week. How is it? I'm only 70 pages in, but it's pretty good. If you've read his earlier stuff and want more of the same in a different setting, you'll enjoy it. Same format: character viewpoint chapters, plenty of critters and plenty blood.
tinsnail racer Posted May 15 Posted May 15 On 14/05/2026 at 17:04, JWL said: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night is still one of the funniest books I've read. I agree; I always liked the whole thing, but the wee line about the polisman being, "...cold, wet and, worst of all for a Leither, marooned..." made me laugh.
tinsnail racer Posted May 15 Posted May 15 An Anarchy Of Demons - Charlie Harper. I'm also most of the way through Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie.
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