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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Currently Michael Connelly some of the Bosch books and Craig Russell his Glasgow Noir novels and Jan Faber Hamburg books.
    They are well written and entertaining.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I see you're starting at the beginning, @Thunderfinger.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
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    I see you're starting at the beginning, @Thunderfinger.

    It is a book about cataclysms. And those are always beginnings, so yes.
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I'm reading Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit.

    Love E Nesbit - she wrote children as real children, not perfect little angels, which was rare in her time. (She sends up Victorian children's literature where kids end up dying and going to heaven as a reward for their extreme goodness.)

    Jacqueline Wilson has written a modern-day version called Four Children and It.

    Nesbit also wrote a few horror stories that still hold well to this day. I read them around Halloween.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
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    I see you're starting at the beginning, @Thunderfinger.

    It is a book about cataclysms. And those are always beginnings, so yes.

    Yes, I was reading up on it there and the text seems to have been partially banned by the CIA. Interesting. Is it known why?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I was wondering how it ends, @Thunderfinger.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
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    I see you're starting at the beginning, @Thunderfinger.

    It is a book about cataclysms. And those are always beginnings, so yes.

    Yes, I was reading up on it there and the text seems to have been partially banned by the CIA. Interesting. Is it known why?

    It was recently declassified and I am trying to find out.
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    Mozart: The man Revealed by John Suchet. Fascinating biography. And the James Bond comic strip, which my wife bought me for my birthday.
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    Taking advantage of the fact that I don't have any comics to read (the store opened yesterday, and if all goes well, I will go there this week to catch up on what I've missed) to read Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise adventures. So last week, I finished The Impossible Virgin, finished Pieces of Modesty yesterday, and started The Silver Mistress today. Too bad Modesty never had a movie worthy of her.
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    Against my own advice I have started reading Carte Blanche, on top of other books I'm reading at the moment. It's quite enjoyable so far and I see Deaver has a genuine love for Ian Fleming, but Fleming he is not. In many ways Fleming was a 19th century writer, with a borderline anachronistic prose, rich in details, however trivial and superfluous to the plot they may seem. Deaver is more action centered and thus feels more like a generic thriller.
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Against my own advice I have started reading Carte Blanche, on top of other books I'm reading at the moment. It's quite enjoyable so far and I see Deaver has a genuine love for Ian Fleming, but Fleming he is not. In many ways Fleming was a 19th century writer, with a borderline anachronistic prose, rich in details, however trivial and superfluous to the plot they may seem. Deaver is more action centered and thus feels more like a generic thriller.

    Deaver was more the master of the plot twist and while he can write a thriller I was never too sure about his James Bond effort, he remains an interesting and good writer.
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Against my own advice I have started reading Carte Blanche, on top of other books I'm reading at the moment. It's quite enjoyable so far and I see Deaver has a genuine love for Ian Fleming, but Fleming he is not. In many ways Fleming was a 19th century writer, with a borderline anachronistic prose, rich in details, however trivial and superfluous to the plot they may seem. Deaver is more action centered and thus feels more like a generic thriller.

    Deaver was more the master of the plot twist and while he can write a thriller I was never too sure about his James Bond effort, he remains an interesting and good writer.

    He seems (so far) to be a good writer and he's got some credentials. It's just that Fleming was not famous for his plot twists. And on a side note it sort of irks me that the chapters don't have titles.
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    Colonel Sun is okay.
    The Gardner books are -- generally speaking -- not very good.
    Utterly despised Devil May Care.
    Didn't care for Carte Blanche.
    Didn't read Solo.
    Really enjoyed Horowitz's two Bond novels... A third would be nice!
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    Sun is indeed alright, the Gardner books are hit and miss, he did some excellent ones, DMC[ is the poorest effort yet, CB was refreshing and well done but a bit like cursing in the church of 007 fans, Solo sucked the chrome of a classic cars´bumper, the Horowitz books were entertaining and a thrid is welcome, the Young Bond books are very well written and I would not mind an adult 007 book from Higson and the Moneypenny books were about great fun. These last are perhaps my guilty pleasure.
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    The Diamond Smugglers by Ian Fleming a book he wrote as a journalist after the release of Diamonds are forever, I´ve got a second edition Jonathan Cape hardcover, I am sure I read but it turns out I did not.
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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    The Gunslinger by Stephen King. This will be my second read through of The Dark Tower.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

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    "He was a cat. He was an iron bar fistload in a hard right hand. He was rough like a chisel and relentless as a iackhammer. He was Snake Plissken and he was running for all he was worth. The hallway stretched out long and dark before him; neon script crawled the walls in patterns as complex as spider webs. Dizzying patterns. Insane patterns. Symptoms of the nerve gas madness that dipped out of the sky to touch everyone's Iife from time to time. Plissken wasn't crazy, though. He was motivated."
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    I didn't know there was a book @DarthDimi , cool.

    Finished The Gunslinger, on to The Drawing of Three.
    Some people I've known to have read Gunslinger didn't like it very much because there isn't a ton of character development, but for me, it's a great gateway into the rest of the series, because it's shorter than all the other entries, and it spends a lot of time developing nuances about the world, and the protagonist, Roland. There's good story structure I think, and I kind of like how the narration goes backwards in time, in a kind of Inception-y way: Roland tells a story about something that happened to him, and in that story, tells another story about something even further in the past. It's an interesting way to make the world and the character richer, but it isn't done in a way that's confusing/requires you to keep track of where you are in the narrative. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." is such a brilliant first line, IMO.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    So that novelization must have the opening sequence Carpenter filmed but didn't use. I only recently saw that deleted scene.

    I should really search that out and try it. Plus what the heck are these by Christopher Sebela, 2015-2016.

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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story By Chris Nashawaty.
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    The Wind in the Willows by kenneth Grahame.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Last night I finished Dune, which I unaccountably missed in my teenage romp through classic sci-fi. I liked it a lot, though I think I'd have been more thrilled by the plot and all the strange words if I'd read it when I was younger. (We were talking in yesterday's virtual team meeting about what we were reading, and one of my colleagues had also just finished it, so we had a little nerd party.)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1960) by Ian Fleming.
    My first copy of this vanished many years ago, so it was great finally finding it at a second hand shop in Oslo this summer.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    Last night I finished Dune, which I unaccountably missed in my teenage romp through classic sci-fi. I liked it a lot, though I think I'd have been more thrilled by the plot and all the strange words if I'd read it when I was younger. (We were talking in yesterday's virtual team meeting about what we were reading, and one of my colleagues had also just finished it, so we had a little nerd party.)

    I'd love to read Dune at some point. Maybe after my current read through of The Dark Tower.
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    The Empty Copper Sea (1978), by John D. MacDonald
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/225405/the-splendid-and-the-vile-by-erik-larson/

    Excellent. My second book by Larson. I'm going to read them all. @Benny , I know that you are a Churchill fan yourself, you may enjoy this.

    I might have to look that up. Thanks @Birdleson :-bd
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    1964 (but taking place in 1994)
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