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  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    Posts: 6,432
    Casino Royale Decided to buy the set on Kindle, had numerous paper back and hard back copies over the years. Not read any of the books for over a decade, getting digital copies is a good incentive to revisit them
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Just finished "Some Kind Of Hero" which i found very interesting, in particular some of the quotes which i had not heard or read about before.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,978
    On Dangerous Ground by Jack Higgins
    The 3rd book in the Sean Dillon series. This one, the overall story, felt a little too much like it's predecessor, Thunder Point. Not a terrible crime, considering how much I enjoyed Thunder Point, but I would have expected this one to be more different. Dillon even has to go diving to uncover 'The Chungking Covenant' (On Dangerous Ground's equivalent of 'The Windsor Protocol' from Thunder Point).
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Thunder Point sounds interesting.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,269
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Thunder Point sounds interesting.

    I'd never have expected you to say that. :D
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,978
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Thunder Point sounds interesting.

    If you like thrillers, try it. You might want to read up on (if not fully read) the first book, Eye Of The Storm, otherwise some aspects of Thunder Point (such as what is so special about Dillon) might not make sense.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    A Colder War by Charles Cumming. A modern day spy thriller, have previously read the author's The Trinity Six which was very good.
  • valentinzukovskyvalentinzukovsky
    Posts: 503
    Our Kind Of Traitor By John Le Carre . The worst book i've read since Devil May Care, the difference is I won't be finishing Our Kind Of Traitor . I find it difficult to believe that the man who wrote tinker tailor soldier spy could come up with something this bad. If you're a John le Carré fan Our Kind Of Traitor is one to avoid.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C Clarke. My second C Clarke book and enjoying it so far.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,114
    Demolition Angel by Robert Crais.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    MEN ROCAMBOLE VAR IKKE DØD (BUT ROCAMBOLE WAS NOT DEAD), the first book in the classic 1920s Roca series by Øvre Richter Frich. These stories are in no way any less than those of Jules Verne when it comes to characteriztion and adventure. A young criminal boy ends up on a journey to faraway. Delightfully anti-PC seen with today s eyes.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,269
    I'm going to start re-reading Ian Fleming's last Bond novel The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) soon as blessedly I have some (very rare) free time on my hands.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
    Posts: 3,144
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I'm going to start re-reading Ian Fleming's last Bond novel The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) soon as blessedly I have some (very rare) free time on my hands.

    I hope you enjoy it I've just put it down after reading again for the second time first time was 1982 whilst I was down south Atlantic way .
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,269
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I'm going to start re-reading Ian Fleming's last Bond novel The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) soon as blessedly I have some (very rare) free time on my hands.

    I hope you enjoy it I've just put it down after reading again for the second time first time was 1982 whilst I was down south Atlantic way .

    I read it first over a weekend (a record for me!) in October 1998 (after buying the '60s Pan edition from a school friend who helped me build up my early collection). I then read it again during the summer of 2002 when between 2001 and 2002 I reread all of the Fleming Bond novels (and short story collections) as well as rereading a good few of the Continuation Bonds by Messers Amis and Gardner. Good times!
  • timmertimmer
    Posts: 4,622
    I see the new King is out, End of Watch.
    Looking forward to this. Finders Keepers was kind of an interlude.
    Now we get back to that seriously deranged wacko Mr Mercedes killer, but now he's got spooky powers. Yikes.
    This will be good!
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham.
  • MyNameIsMyBondRnMyNameIsMyBondRn WhereYouLeastExpectMeToBe
    edited June 2016 Posts: 221
    William Sharp; Patricia Highsmith' s Last Novel 'SMALL g: A SUMMER IDYLL'

    4:01PM edited 5:04PM in Literary 007 Posts: 105FlagQuote


    -.Chapter 10; " A little after 1 A.M., Rickie and Teddie stood talking outside Jakob's. His name was Teddie Stevenson, his mother was Swiss, his father American, Teddie had explained. He had told Rickie a different name, because-well, why?-because he liked to feel like another person, somebody else now and then.
    'I ve never done anyone any harm by it, 'Teddie said. 'I'm not trying to cover up anything.' -"


    This her last novel is stuffed with more suspense provided that You know the real truth behind the making of it-written between 1992 towards the end of 1994. Her US litterary contact in New York did not want to publish it because of a very simple reason.
    -It was to much of myself in it - I was already known in NY and NYT as the pseudonyme 'William Sharp'.

    Patricia Highsmith especially liked the Front Cover of this novel, and I know why-because it featured a litle detail that was centric to my life at that time. The letter 'g' has some small 'lamps' litting up the letter; the number of these are 13-Thirteen-that was the two first numbers of the account I did receive the source of my income from.
    in a foreign bank, and I had it sent to my UBS bank account in LUGANO; where I usually stayed in a small hotel that had the name with the letter 'g' in it..

    -In the summer of 1994 President Bill Clinton landed together with Members of half the American Congress in Rome.The suspense; I was there too. The us Government had put some pressure on the greek government to have me flushed out of Greece, and the only way I could afford to travel was to Rome, to wait for my next funds.

    Patricia Highsmith was a very shrewed woman. In her home in Tegna, Ticino she received the news from Rome. The limping of Renate in this novel was in fact my own limping, but she transfered it to Renate to give myself a more sympatic appearance in her plot. I am also other figures and persons in this novel- like that of WILLI(am) Biber; the Village Idiot( that actually are 2 real persons-the cook of my hotel and myself-as she had difficulties to write the book I was used in several personalities so she could complete her novel.

    The suspense; she even dedicated her novel to myself, but concealed it by using her friends name and names; the dedication; 'To my friend Frieda Sommer'-should actually be read as follows; 'To my friend Fried a summer' -Fried like in the outing of a spy in the way Valerie Plame was outed to the general public..

    Patricia Highsmith had seen my passings in Lugano for several summers and that it was a real idyllic situation. She liked my personality, she saw me precisely as she describes it on my frequent walks trough Lugano, and that happened really often.

    -I myself did not know anything about my appearance in her book until quite recently, this Year 2016- when I saw 'The Talented Mr Ripley' in TV-and I did reach for the internet to understand more about Patricia Highsmith and her works. I saw a very good description from another writer about her last novel, and started to recognize the situation.The truth behind it is worthy a movie or tv play..not mainly thanks to myself, but thanks to the Commander-In-Chief President William J Clinton himself..!-The rest is his story..!

    William Sharp
  • MyNameIsMyBondRnMyNameIsMyBondRn WhereYouLeastExpectMeToBe
    Posts: 221
    Thank you dimi
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    Just finished OHMSS :) still my favourite Bond Novel.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,114
    I'm reading The Expectant Dad's Handbook by Dean Beaumont. Very useful.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    The Conquest of the Plassans by Emile Zola, fourth in the Rougon-Macquart series.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
    edited June 2016 Posts: 4,583
    Catch Me If You Can The real life Frank Abagnale story. The movie hit some spots, but the book goes way further into depth and is funny as well. He actually spent up to a year in each of his cons: Pilot, Doctor: Lawyer etc. And the movie falsified a lot of aspects. For example, the movie shows him stops being a lawyer because the Feds show up at his wedding party. The book tells that he had to stop because he was pretending to be a Harvard law grad, but has to flee when an actual one tries to befriend him and becomes suspicious. A very good read so far.
  • MyNameIsMyBondRnMyNameIsMyBondRn WhereYouLeastExpectMeToBe
    Posts: 221
    MyNameIsMyBondRn wrote: »
    William Sharp; Patricia Highsmith' s Last Novel 'SMALL g: A SUMMER IDYLL'

    4:01PM edited 5:04PM in Literary 007 Posts: 105FlagQuote


    -.Chapter 10; " A little after 1 A.M., Rickie and Teddie stood talking outside Jakob's. His name was Teddie Stevenson, his mother was Swiss, his father American, Teddie had explained. He had told Rickie a different name, because-well, why?-because he liked to feel like another person, somebody else now and then.
    'I ve never done anyone any harm by it, 'Teddie said. 'I'm not trying to cover up anything.' -"


    This her last novel is stuffed with more suspense provided that You know the real truth behind the making of it-written between 1992 towards the end of 1994. Her US litterary contact in New York did not want to publish it because of a very simple reason.
    -It was to much of myself in it - I was already known in NY and NYT as the pseudonyme 'William Sharp'.

    Patricia Highsmith especially liked the Front Cover of this novel, and I know why-because it featured a litle detail that was centric to my life at that time. The letter 'g' has some small 'lamps' litting up the letter; the number of these are 13-Thirteen-that was the two first numbers of the account I did receive the source of my income from.
    in a foreign bank, and I had it sent to my UBS bank account in LUGANO; where I usually stayed in a small hotel that had the name with the letter 'g' in it..

    -In the summer of 1994 President Bill Clinton landed together with Members of half the American Congress in Rome.The suspense; I was there too. The us Government had put some pressure on the greek government to have me flushed out of Greece, and the only way I could afford to travel was to Rome, to wait for my next funds.

    Patricia Highsmith was a very shrewed woman. In her home in Tegna, Ticino she received the news from Rome. The limping of Renate in this novel was in fact my own limping, but she transfered it to Renate to give myself a more sympatic appearance in her plot. I am also other figures and persons in this novel- like that of WILLI(am) Biber; the Village Idiot( that actually are 2 real persons-the cook of my hotel and myself-as she had difficulties to write the book I was used in several personalities so she could complete her novel.

    The suspense; she even dedicated her novel to myself, but concealed it by using her friends name and names; the dedication; 'To my friend Frieda Sommer'-should actually be read as follows; 'To my friend Fried a summer' -Fried like in the outing of a spy in the way Valerie Plame was outed to the general public..

    Patricia Highsmith had seen my passings in Lugano for several summers and that it was a real idyllic situation. She liked my personality, she saw me precisely as she describes it on my frequent walks trough Lugano, and that happened really often.

    -I myself did not know anything about my appearance in her book until quite recently, this Year 2016- when I saw 'The Talented Mr Ripley' in TV-and I did reach for the internet to understand more about Patricia Highsmith and her works. I saw a very good description from another writer about her last novel, and started to recognize the situation.The truth behind it is worthy a movie or tv play..not mainly thanks to myself, but thanks to the Commander-In-Chief President William J Clinton himself..!-The rest is his story..!

    William Sharp

  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    The Ends of The Earth - Robert Goddard. Third in the Wide World trilogy. Following the adventures of James 'Max' Maxted during 1919.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    Posts: 6,432
    SupVsHollywood.jpg
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    That looks interesting.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited July 2016 Posts: 28,694
    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    SupVsHollywood.jpg

    They'll need to republish that soon with twelve chapters just focusing on BvS. Actually, considering just how little Superman is in the movie, it may only need one chapter to cover it all.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    Posts: 6,432
    Purchased it on Amazon Kindle, for sure a BvS chapter would be fascinating. Often the Hollywood behind the scenes shenanigans are far more interesting than movies that are being deliberated over.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,114
    I'd read that one.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    Blood and Ashes, a great film noir type thriller . :)>-
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Ashes-Debut-Oscar-Thriller-ebook/dp/B003XIJ6IS
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