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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Kiss kiss bang bang -the boom in British thrillers from Casino Royale to The eagle has landed by Mike Ripley.

    Interesting look upon British spy thrillers.

    isbn 9780008172237
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Just After Sunset by Stephen King. Another collection of short stories from the Master of the Macabre. Actually missed out on this one when it can out! I had bought a hardback copy (according to my Amazon history) which I must have bought for one of my nephews!
    So far so good, it's nice to come across a book you think you've read before and haven't.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE BUILDERS
    A STORY AND STUDY
    OF MASONRY

    BY
    JOSEPH FORT NEWTON
    [1914]
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  • Just After Sunset by Stephen King. Another collection of short stories from the Master of the Macabre. Actually missed out on this one when it can out! I had bought a hardback copy (according to my Amazon history) which I must have bought for one of my nephews!
    So far so good, it's nice to come across a book you think you've read before and haven't.

    I read most of these awhile back. I should go back and read the rest at some point. I recall "Graduation Day" being a cool little vignette—more a scene than a story really, but evocative just the same. Everything's Eventual offered more of interest for me as a collection, but there's always something in King's works that amuses or intrigues or provokes thought. Still, his earliest days of writing short stories—his Night Shift days—when raw creativity was bursting from his fingertips, were his best.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Just After Sunset by Stephen King. Another collection of short stories from the Master of the Macabre. Actually missed out on this one when it can out! I had bought a hardback copy (according to my Amazon history) which I must have bought for one of my nephews!
    So far so good, it's nice to come across a book you think you've read before and haven't.

    I read most of these awhile back. I should go back and read the rest at some point. I recall "Graduation Day" being a cool little vignette—more a scene than a story really, but evocative just the same. Everything's Eventual offered more of interest for me as a collection, but there's always something in King's works that amuses or intrigues or provokes thought. Still, his earliest days of writing short stories—his Night Shift days—when raw creativity was bursting from his fingertips, were his best.

    Love Night Shift and was so made-up when he published Skeleton Crew, and I love that he still, every so often, releases short story collections. I've always loved the short story, and I think it maybe goes back to my pre-teens when I used to read the Pan Books of Horror edit by Herbert Van Thal. A couple of which I re-bought in the recent past to try and capture those halcyon days…
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    I think The Man With the Golden Gun is my most read Fleming book, for whatever reason. Not sure why. Anyhow nice review Dimi :)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Thank you, @IGUANNA! :) I'm always a bit shocked by the lack of praise TMWTGG (novel!) receives. It's a solid little thriller.
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Thank you, @IGUANNA! :) I'm always a bit shocked by the lack of praise TMWTGG (novel!) receives. It's a solid little thriller.

    I love TMWTGG to especially the last paragraph which promises a newly and resurrected James Bond. Too bad Fleming died it would have been great to see a new era of 007 books by his hand.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Very true, @SaintMark.
    Fleming hadn't even entered his 60s yet. A healthy man could have gone on writing many more Bond novels. Imagine the Moon Landing, Watergate, Vietnam, ... having somehow made it into Fleming's stories.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    (1975)

    Some repulsive stuff going on here.
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Very true, @SaintMark.
    Fleming hadn't even entered his 60s yet. A healthy man could have gone on writing many more Bond novels. Imagine the Moon Landing, Watergate, Vietnam, ... having somehow made it into Fleming's stories.

    That would have been truly great reading Bond in another era but by Fleming.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    (1982)
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    Claudius the God by Robert Graves.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Claudius the God by Robert Graves.

    Be careful so you don t get radicalized.
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Claudius the God by Robert Graves.

    Be careful so you don t get radicalized.

    Not a chance : he's been dead for a while.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 by Max Hastings. Originally published in 1984 this is a recent hardback re-release which only cost me £4 at WHSmith (cover prices £25) so I had to get it!
    So far so good, but I think I prefer Anthony Beevor's more recent D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (published 2009) paperback edition from 2012, bought later than that though.
    Both of these books have exactly the same picture on the front cover!
    Both books well worth reading if you have an interest in WW2 or Operation Overlord in particular.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    ISIS UNVEILED (1877) by Helena P. Blavatsky

    and

    WOMEN (1978) by Charles Bukowski
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    ISIS UNVEILED (1877) by Helena P. Blavatsky

    and

    WOMEN (1978) by Charles Bukowski

    ISIS and Women are not a good mix.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    You are wrong. The name has been hijacked.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    You are wrong. The name has been hijacked.

    I know, it's an old term. It's just my silly joke!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    AN OUTLINE OF THEOSOPHY by C. W. Leadbeter.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    AN OUTLINE OF THEOSOPHY by C. W. Leadbeter.

    You must read very fast! It takes me an age sometimes.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Not really, but I read every day. Usually alternating between two.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Not really, but I read every day. Usually alternating between two.

    I do too, but not always books. Usually researching something that I may or may not write-up!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    MAN AND HIS BODIES (1896) by Annie Besant
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    The Yes tour book it is really interesting
  • edited July 2018 Posts: 4,622
    Risico007 wrote: »
    The Yes tour book it is really interesting

    Which Yes tour book is this? A legendary prog-rock band to be sure!

    ==actually I am now reading a rock n' roll book,
    Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones, by Robert Greenfield.

    "Recorded during the blazing hot summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcôte, Keith Richards's seaside mansion in southern France, Exile on Main Street has been hailed as one of the greatest rock records of all time. ... Google

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    Greenfield knows his Stones. He was there!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    USAs PRESIDENTER by Ole O. Moen.

    An extensive book about US history, and all the presidents, from Washington to Trump.
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    timmer wrote: »
    Risico007 wrote: »
    The Yes tour book it is really interesting

    Which Yes tour book is this? A legendary prog-rock band to be sure!

    ==actually I am now reading a rock n' roll book,
    Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones, by Robert Greenfield.

    "Recorded during the blazing hot summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcôte, Keith Richards's seaside mansion in southern France, Exile on Main Street has been hailed as one of the greatest rock records of all time. ... Google

    980x.jpg

    Greenfield knows his Stones. He was there!

    The Yes 50th anniversary tour book it’s pretty interesting and while it definitely has the agenda of isn’t the current lineup amazing (which I agree with) it still is really good
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    @Risico_007
    Yes the current lineup isnt bad. I did like the Heaven And Earth album, although Squire was still with the band then, but Yes veteran Sherwood I think was a natural replacement.
    I saw him play with group in an earlier go round
    He fit right in with Howe, Squire and Anderson.
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