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Carrie - fantastic start to a brilliant career!
And have just started 'Salem's Lot, as with the first 5 King's I have this paperback is more than 35 years old, and although they are in very good condition, because the glue used for binding back then wasn't the best (from The Dead Zone on the glue is more 'elastic') some of the pages have started to fall out as I'm reading it. Which is causing me some anxiety!
EDIT: the book has actually fallen in two! more pages falling out, this is not good. Upset now.
Book, so good !
The Secret War - Max Hastings, a book about spies, codes and guerrillas 1939-1945, and to quote Mr Hastings in the forward - "It is often said that Ian Fleming's thrillers bear no relationship to the real world of espionage. However, when reading contemporary Soviet reports and recorded conversations, together with the memoirs of Moscow's wartime intelligence officers, I am struck by how uncannily they mirror the mad, monstrous, imagined dialogue of such people in Fleming's From Russia With Love. And the plots planned and executed by the NKVD and the GRU were no less fantastic than his."
The James Bond Archive - edited by Paul Duncan. I've had this since publication, and obviously have looked through it from time to time, but am now reading it seriously, from cover to cover. A huge, heavy tome full of great images and words, and I'm loving it!
Finished the very satisfying conclusion to the Hodges trilogy, End of Watch.
Played out real well I think.
I'm all caught up with the recent books. Think I have read the last 10 titles or so.
Haven't read much of the early stuff other than Salem's Lot, and first two Dark Towers.
Thinking of sampling the early classics. Can't believe it took me all this time to discover King in a big way. I read the Dark Half way back, liked it, but didn't pick up another.
A few years back, I picked up the JFK 11/22/63 just to see what his spin was on that fateful day in Dallas.
Couldn't put it down which drove me to start grabbing the new titles.
==recently reading latest adventure of Remo Williams.
The Destroyer series went on hiatus as of 2008, but original author, Warren Murphy revived it with the Destroyer #150 The End of the World in 2012, which was his last Destroyer before he died last year.
But a new author RJ Carter, who is excellent and a protege of the master, has picked up with #151 Bully Pulpit (2016) with the Masters of Sinaju battling knockoff ISIS types and Remo carrying on with an Israeli agent, whom I have envisaged as Wonder Woman actress, Gal Gadot, based on the sexed-up book description.
Murphy apparently also wrote a short novella post 2008, in which Remo hilariously works as a Lady Ga Ga knockoff's bodyguard.
Its only available as an ebook. Will have to dust off the kindle and download.
==Also read the first in Jim Mullaney's (former Murphy Destroyer collaborator) Red Menace series, #1 Red and Buried. Reads just like a Destroyer, not surprisingly.
Great over-the-top adventure. Girls guns humour and intrigue.
Series is set in the cold war circa early'70s. Mullaney's Destroyer inspired scathing humour is relentless. Soviets on the receiving end. Castro is skewered.
Our hero manages to rid the world of both Castro and Idi Amin in the first book. Well done!
Good escapist adventure from the Destroyer's best continuation author.
Mammoth three volume novel but ripping through it at the moment. His writing style is captivating, the plot intriguing and characters wonderfully realised. It's the best book I've read all year. Murakami is my girlfriend's favourite author and this is her favourite book of his.
I alternate between a Bond book and a non-Bond. Next one is going to be John Gardner's 'For Special Services' (I'm going through the continuation novels in sequence. Have read a couple before many years ago)
Smart, exciting and funny. The freemason lodge P2, NATO terror network Gladio, the murder of Pope John Paul I, a coup planned by the Italian noble family Borghese and more. An Italian translator stumbles over it all in the 90s.
For some strange reason, Eco reminds me of 19th century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, who died young and didn t write much.
Recommended.
1) non fiction : Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate
2) fiction : Jeeves and Wooster...
If only I could have found the movie. C'est la vie. Guess I'll have to settle for my copy of the 1959 Ben-Hur, which I also managed to get as well!
An encyclopedic outline of masonic, hermetic, qabbalistic and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy. This book was written by 33rd degree Freemason Manly P. Hall and first came out in 1928. Over 1000 pages.
Sounds like one for the beach..!
Do you want me to inscribe your copy?
I want you to inscribe the original Mona Lisa instead. Do it tomorrow.
I certainly will. Could you sign the little red book for me?
That's a great read. I couldn't believe how good it was when I first read it. No film has ever done it justice.
The Recruit By Robert Muchamore
Hurricane Gold