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  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Hellfire - fourth of the Jack Tanner series by James Holland, these books have been steadily getting better, so really looking forward to this one.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    After watching the Hannibal tv series I decided it was time to re-read "Red Dragon" in which we meet Will Graham the one who caught Hannibal Lecter. Even if that cameo only lasts 6 pages.

    My favourite novel. Re-read it every year.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
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    Second reading of Jan Potocki's Manuscript Found In Saragossa prior to watch its cult psychdelic film version. I'll stop at the end of the first part, but I have the complete work and plan to read the second part sooner or later.

    Next stop: The Ipcress File prior to see the movie, blah, blah, yadda, yadda...
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE BOOK OF THE LAW
    Liber AL vel Legis
    sub figura CCXX
    as delivered by XCIII=418 DCLXVI
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,348
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    THE BOOK OF THE LAW
    Liber AL vel Legis
    sub figura CCXX
    as delivered by XCIII=418 DCLXVI

    Sounds like a book I might be interested in. Can you tell us more, @Thunderfinger?
  • Risico007Risico007
    Posts: 9,860
    Just finished the Heist and my God was that a great film Daniel Silva is just really awesome. I am half way through Carte Blanche and a chapter into trigger Mortis I plan on finishing both of those and possibly starting a third book this week only if o can finish it before January first.
  • timmertimmer
    edited December 2016 Posts: 4,622
    SharkBait wrote: »
    Stephen King's Joyland. It's been slow read for me thus far and I've read a couple of Bond novels in the mean time. It's been though to read, mainly because the time I started rhis novel, I was thrown in the middle of family argument and when I pick up from where I was left, the bad memories just surface. The book also touches broken relationships. So there's that.
    Joyland is not a bad read.
    It resolves well at the end, as many of Kings books do.

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    THE BOOK OF THE LAW
    Liber AL vel Legis
    sub figura CCXX
    as delivered by XCIII=418 DCLXVI

    Sounds like a book I might be interested in. Can you tell us more, @Thunderfinger?

    I am not allowed to discuss it. In fact I am not even allowed to reread it.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Birdleson wrote: »
    timmer wrote: »
    SharkBait wrote: »
    Stephen King's Joyland. It's been slow read for me thus far and I've read a couple of Bond novels in the mean time. It's been though to read, mainly because the time I started rhis novel, I was thrown in the middle of family argument and when I pick up from where I was left, the bad memories just surface. The book also touches broken relationships. So there's that.
    Joyland is not a bad read.
    It resolves well at the end, as many of Kings books do.

    We're have opposing views there. It's endings that always seem to fall apart to me. He tends to go ethereal when a more tactile or earthy conclusion would have been more satisfying.

    Have to agree - sometimes I find the endings a bit of a let down. 11-22-61 being one, loved it right up to the ending, which was a bit WTF!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,348
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    THE BOOK OF THE LAW
    Liber AL vel Legis
    sub figura CCXX
    as delivered by XCIII=418 DCLXVI

    Sounds like a book I might be interested in. Can you tell us more, @Thunderfinger?

    I am not allowed to discuss it. In fact I am not even allowed to reread it.

    But you will of course. You are a rebel. Just like me.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    All I can say is it is the sacred text tor thelemites.
  • KaijuDirectorOO7KaijuDirectorOO7 Once Upon a Time Somewhere...
    edited December 2016 Posts: 189
    CzFGb8-UQAAGVSH.jpg The Spy Who Came in From The Cold. A little treasure I found today.
  • timmertimmer
    edited December 2016 Posts: 4,622
    I liked the ending to the latest King trilogy.
    Tied up good, I thought.
    I was also satisfied when I put down both Joyland and 11-22-63, although I honestly can't remember exactly how either book ended.
    I read them both when they were new. Details have faded.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL AND THE IDEA OF EVIL FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY by Paul Carus (1900)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,348
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL AND THE IDEA OF EVIL FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY by Paul Carus (1900)

    Some light bedtime reading there, Thundy. :D
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Yes, it s under 500 pages.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,348
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Yes, it s under 500 pages.

    No bother for you!
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    edited December 2016 Posts: 1,874
    Casino Royale (1953) for the umpteenth time! This time though it is the recent imprint from The Folio Society (also have FRWL). A beautiful volume, illustrated and in a thick slipcase, lovely re-set with clean clear font. A treasure.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    Dashiell Hammett - Nightmare town a brilliant collection of short stories containing some real beauties among them the Continental Op & 3 more tales with Sam Spade. Noir PI as only a few can write them.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    Lord Of The Flies in 2 hours. Quite an addictive book. Reading The Ipcress File, very interesting and a 101 on real-life spy work (leaving John Le Carré aside, of course)' but a challenge to a non-native speaker with its skillful use of slang.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING (Clavicula Solomonis) by S. Liddell Macgregor Mathers. This recipe for Hebrew science and quabbalistic white magic was first printed in London in 1888.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    edited December 2016 Posts: 7,653
    Richard Stark - Breakout (a Parker novel)
    Elly Griffiths - Smoke and mirrors
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    Just finished The Ipcress File, almost at the end of A Clockwork Orange
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,181
    'Slow Horses' by Mick Herron, a spy novel that makes John le Carré look like a cheery optimist with boundless faith in human nature. Loved it.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    PISTIS SOPHIA translated to English by G. R. S. Mead.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    Finished A Clockwork Orange. Dobby horrorshow raskazz, droogs.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    On a Stephen King-Athon for 2017. Have already read Carrie (1974), love it! And halfway through 'Salem's Lot (1975), great vampire tale. Looking forward to a huge re-read with stuff like, The Shining, The Stand, IT, Under the Dome et al to come! Happy reading.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    Mickey Spillane - the Goliath Bone
    Ritter - Jackaby
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    On to The Shining now, not read this in 30-odd years, really enjoying it again. Next up, Rage by one Richard Bachman!
  • timmertimmer
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,622
    Just picked up "I, Ripper" 2015 fiction, by Stephen Hunter.
    This is a real interesting take on the mystery of Jack The Ripper, and his horrific two month killing spree.
    Hunter writes the story in the first person from both Jack's perspective and from that of a reporter assigned to cover the crimes.
    First rate thriller. I picked this up on spec, and can't put it down. Burned thru 120 pages on first sitting.
    A terrifying yet fascinating read.
    What has tantalized about these most gruesome murders, for over 100+ years, is that the crimes were never solved.
    Who was Jack The Ripper? Hunter works the facts of the case and much of the known research (including the who and the why of it), into his own take on what went down on the darkened gas-lit streets of district Whitechapel, during the infamous "Autumn of the Knife."
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