• We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy Holidays and a very Merry Christmas from all at Golf Monthly. Thank you for sharing your 2025 with us!

Books - what are you reading just now?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Deleted Member 1156
  • Start date Start date
fundy said:
Just read Long road to Mercy by David Baldacci which was excellent
Click to expand...
He has done a lot of advertisement for Adlee Pine. I like my series when they are already established a little. Is it promising? I really like his Will Robie and Camel Club ones.
 
larmen said:
He has done a lot of advertisement for Adlee Pine. I like my series when they are already established a little. Is it promising? I really like his Will Robie and Camel Club ones.
Click to expand...

I stumbled across it having not seen the advertisements (as a reader of prev series), without giving too much away shes a female version of similar leads in this type of genre. Its excellently written as all his books are for me and shes a decent lead character, Definitely promising and more to come from her past in future books clearly
 
fundy said:
Just read Long road to Mercy by David Baldacci which was excellent
Click to expand...

I recently read End Game by Baldacci - a 'pick-up' in our hotel in Bali. I had not read any Baldacci before but it was one of only half dozen books in English that they had - and after finishing it (somehow) I determined that I wouldn't waste my time reading 600+ pages of inconsequential 'shoot 'em up' again. Unless you can assure me that End Game isn't representative of the quality of his writing
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I recently read End Game by Baldacci - a 'pick-up' in our hotel in Bali. I had not read any Baldacci before but it was one of only half dozen books in English that they had - and after finishing it (somehow) I determined that I wouldn't waste my time reading 600+ pages of inconsequential 'shoot 'em up' again. Unless you can assure me that End Game isn't representative of the quality of his writing
Click to expand...

Its an American crime based novel, theres going to be a degree of shoot em up as you call it in them but wouldnt say it was overdone personally but we may have different perspectives. For me his books always come across as much about the main characters and their interaction than just the action in the book
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I recently read End Game by Baldacci
Click to expand...
It’s part of the Will Robie series, but I can’t recall the story line right now. There will be killing involved. You don’t get many spy novels without it.

If you like a Baldacci with less killing I would suggest the King and Maxwell series. Also available on TV every now and then, but weirdly paced there. 2 former Secret Service agents that are now PIs
 
ColchesterFC said:
Just finished the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Now moved on to the Nick Stone series by Andy McNabb.
Click to expand...

I quite enjoyed the Reacher books, there were a couple of duds, but also a decent collection of short stories.

Currently I’m working my way through the Harry Bosch series (author Michael Connelly), suggest if you like Reacher you’ll enjoy these. And best to read them in chronological order as there are references / links which, although not essential, assist the context of the stories.
 
If you read Bosch you should also read Haller (Lincoln Lawyer) where they chronologically fit together. Quite some overlap sometimes.

But if it is someone like Reacher you like I suggest John Milton as a character. Ex military now drifter doing the right thing.
 
woofers said:
I quite enjoyed the Reacher books, there were a couple of duds, but also a decent collection of short stories.

Currently I’m working my way through the Harry Bosch series (author Michael Connelly), suggest if you like Reacher you’ll enjoy these. And best to read them in chronological order as there are references / links which, although not essential, assist the context of the stories.
Click to expand...

larmen said:
If you read Bosch you should also read Haller (Lincoln Lawyer) where they chronologically fit together. Quite some overlap sometimes.

But if it is someone like Reacher you like I suggest John Milton as a character. Ex military now drifter doing the right thing.
Click to expand...

Already been through the Bosch series, and Haller. Also done the Scarpetta books by Patricia Cornwell. Currently re-reading the James Patterson Women's Murder Club series after finishing his Michael Bennet series. Will have a look to see if I've got any of the John Milton books on my hard drive.
 
larmen said:
It’s part of the Will Robie series, but I can’t recall the story line right now. There will be killing involved. You don’t get many spy novels without it.

If you like a Baldacci with less killing I would suggest the King and Maxwell series. Also available on TV every now and then, but weirdly paced there. 2 former Secret Service agents that are now PIs
Click to expand...

I could have got the killing if the story went anywhere - but any plot-line just seemed to be something from which to hang Robie and his buddy's killing off of - the plot and all sub-plots basically went nowhere and I ended the book thinking - really? - is that it? - after all of that? And as for the 'hook' of the London Underground having absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the plot - well...

Serves me right for preferring the stuff by such as Dickens, Wilkie Collins, RLS, John Buchan and Henry James...:)

Just started Buchan's The Free Fishers...
 
Well, it has seen me through about 2 weeks of commute and lunch. The plot is probably forgettable, but it entertained me at the time.
 
Don't read that much fiction - generally prefer non-fiction. And subsequent to the TV series, just read The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright. A fascinating insight into the how/when/why of the rise of Al Qaeda and their committing of 9/11. If you're interested to know why Islamic extremists think as they do, then it's a decent starting place. Mrs B commented " ... bloody funny choice for a holiday read ..." but its what I do.

That said, waiting for the next offerings from Bernard Cornwell and CJ Sansom
 
larmen said:
I don't like 'Star of Africa' / 'The Devils Kingdom' of his, otherwise I am waiting for him to write another one too.
Click to expand...
Well I've finished it in timely fashion doesn't take me long to get through a book. It starts really well and makes for good reading then it really loses its way and just seems to merge Sci fi with thriller & an unbelievable gun fight in a closed off room with Ben Hope v 11 men of which he obviously wins. Sadly for me the worst of his books overall that I've read.
 
Any Bernard Cornwell fans here?

Really enjoy the Sharpe series but Starbuck stuff was dreadful. From his other publications which would be most 'sharpe like' ?
 
Slab said:
Any Bernard Cornwell fans here?

Really enjoy the Sharpe series but Starbuck stuff was dreadful. From his other publications which would be most 'sharpe like' ?
Click to expand...

Difficult for me to say which are most "Sharpe-like" as I read Sharpe along time ago and his other stuff more recently. And he has covered quite a few different historic eras in his stuff. But I quite liked his "Grail Quest" series set in the Hundred Years War - starting with Harlequin. And also the Saxon series - set in 9th /10th centuries at the time of the birth of England as a unified country - starting with The Last Kingdom. And like most of his stuff, the novels are set in & around known battles of the period. (But then, as was the Starbuck series)
 
I have to re-read BALL FOUR. The author, one of my heroes, Jim Bouton, passed away last night. It wasn't not just a great baseball book, it changed sports books forever. I am sad I never got a chance to meet him in person.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

AMcC
What books are you reading just now
2 3 4
Replies
64
Views
7K
bluewolf
bluewolf
Top