Books - what are you reading just now?

The Sentinel, the latest Lee Childs / Jack Reacher book. Except........this time Lee's brother wrote it with Lee overlooking. You can tell, it doesn't run as smoothly, the words are wrong. The basics are there but it is not the same. Disappointing

I know these books have become samey and repetitive but they are easy to fall into and read.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
The Sentinel, the latest Lee Childs / Jack Reacher book. Except........this time Lee's brother wrote it with Lee overlooking. You can tell, it doesn't run as smoothly, the words are wrong. The basics are there but it is not the same. Disappointing

I know these books have become samey and repetitive but they are easy to fall into and read.
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I miss commuting. Just can’t get around reading at home, and I like Reacher and books like that ;-(
 
A Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwell fan here. Catching up/filling in the gaps in WS tales and continuing BC's tales of Uhtred. Also his sailing adventures for a bit of relief from 'fate is inexorable'!
 
A song for the dark times, the latest Rebus story by Ian Rankin. When I worked in the City of Edinburgh Council our new office was built in the Waverley station car park, over a couple of days they were filming a scene for the tv at the side of the tracks, quite funny watching Ken Stott and the girl who played his colleague Siobhan going through the same scene 3 or 4 times then waving to the folk on the intercity 125 as they went back to the start again, interesting to eventually see it on screen
 
AliMc said:
A song for the dark times, the latest Rebus story by Ian Rankin. When I worked in the City of Edinburgh Council our new office was built in the Waverley station car park, over a couple of days they were filming a scene for the tv at the side of the tracks, quite funny watching Ken Stott and the girl who played his colleague Siobhan going through the same scene 3 or 4 times then waving to the folk on the intercity 125 as they went back to the start again, interesting to eventually see it on screen
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AliMc:On a side note'have 5 episodes taped(?) thank the lord that it's Ken Stott and not John Hannah playing the part.K.S.is so much more in keeping with the book/character.-I think he has that certain grittiness/upyours attitude that make the books so riveting-think we have them all in both hard and paperback.Always seem to go back and start them again;all great reads!
I'm also halfway through DUNE but whilst the language is quite evocative,I'm finding it hard to really believe in both the premis and the characters--reminds me of ploughing through Asimov in school+ another sci-fi writer(who's name escapes me)for size and scale.
Jimbo
 
toyboy54 said:
AliMc:On a side note'have 5 episodes taped(?) thank the lord that it's Ken Stott and not John Hannah playing the part.K.S.is so much more in keeping with the book/character.-I think he has that certain grittiness/upyours attitude that make the books so riveting-think we have them all in both hard and paperback.Always seem to go back and start them again;all great reads!
I'm also halfway through DUNE but whilst the language is quite evocative,I'm finding it hard to really believe in both the premis and the characters--reminds me of ploughing through Asimov in school+ another sci-fi writer(who's name escapes me)for size and scale.
Jimbo
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Yeah I agree Ken Stott is great as Rebus, I just love the books, have them all I think, helps that it's mostly set in Edinburgh and I travelled there for most of my 42 years working life so can visualise most of the locations used, just picture KS when I'm reading them. Same as you I think I have read them all twice !
 
Al...can beat you on the re-reading front--it's actually/easily 5or6 for each book and now about to re-start on Tom Sharpes mental/racist series of craziness across different fronts/characters!
Also,can anyone of all you cleverclogs scratch an annoying itch for me and tell me what are the series of books/author where it's a space fleet(future)based in BOISE/Idaho-U.S.A.where everything seemed to be on a huge scale,battling aliens etc;(escapism at college to blame for this-but am sure it was'nt ASIMOV??)---Really don't want to read-just want to remember how I wasted my time dreaming I was a star soldier.---------thanks folks=sorry KAZ but ploughing through DUNE and cannot decide if enjoyable or not!
May go and listen to Barack Obamas recollections on the BBC Sounds app on the pc-seems a thoroughly decent man-Tam and Stuart Off The Ball coming through the telly,love it,talking best goals scored in Scotland over the years--could mention a few?
Jimbo
 
Well. Finished Parade‘s End yesterday. Actually four books in one (If 3 books is a trilogy what’s 4...a quartet I believe?) Anyway - took me two months...

A very long and not that easy read as written in a modernist way with much being streams of consciousness of the characters. And just like us, their thinking jumps backwards and forwards in time from past to present and gets intertwined so you have to keep on top of things.

Nonetheless it is totally absorbing and you really get to feel you understand the characters as you get to know how they think. So if you are at all interested in the life of the aristocracy in the ten years from about 1910 to 1920 - through and in the Great War - it can’t be bettered. It’s basically a love triangle story. But Bridgerton it isn’t ?. Recommended if you have the time and inclination.

Something simpler and quicker now. The Wind in the Willows.
 
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Just finished The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova, a psychologists view on learning poker and how it can help in lifes decisions.

And now started Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay. A very intriguing start...
 
fundy said:
Just finished The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova, a psychologists view on learning poker and how it can help in lifes decisions.

And now started Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay. A very intriguing start...
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I also have just started Elevator Pitch, well, I am on the first page anyway.
 
Am I the only reader on here who is not that bothered about current fiction (though of course I'll read the occasional novel or non-fiction) but who prefers to go back in time to pick up on the classics (specifically Victorian through to 1930s) - and works of renowned popular authors of the 50s and 60s no longer with us...:)
 
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