Books - what are you reading just now?

Lucifer MorningStar said:
Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown the latest novel in his Robert Langdon series.

I won’t put any spoilers in but it’s definitely the weakest of all the Langdon novels. Worth a read if you like Dan Brown but it doesn’t flow half as well as his other books in the series and doesn’t feel like it fits in the Langdon series.
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Reading this at the moment, I think it is as good as the rest of the series and always find them interesting. I like to read some and then google so of the items discussed in the book to see if they are real (most are) and get a bit of background information to build upon the storyline.

Not my usual style of book which is more along the Jack Reacher/Spider Shepherd/Mitch Rapp type of thing.
 
Neilds said:
Reading this at the moment, I think it is as good as the rest of the series and always find them interesting. I like to read some and then google so of the items discussed in the book to see if they are real (most are) and get a bit of background information to build upon the storyline.

Not my usual style of book which is more along the Jack Reacher/Spider Shepherd/Mitch Rapp type of thing.
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It’s just not done it for me this one. Feels to forced in trying to put it all together compared to the natural flow of how others in the series.

The others have all been exceptional in their own way, insightful, historically interesting and thought provoking. This one just feels like Langdon is stumbling his way along and not really using the intellect he’s known for and puzzle solving. But I’ve finished now and onto my next book.
 
I downloaded the Dan Brown book but not started it yet.
What I am curious about, does it follow the last book or the last movie?
The movie had a happy ending where they stopped the bad guy, in the book they didn’t and half the world should be sterile.
 
larmen said:
I downloaded the Dan Brown book but not started it yet.
What I am curious about, does it follow the last book or the last movie?
The movie had a happy ending where they stopped the bad guy, in the book they didn’t and half the world should be sterile.
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There’s no reference/link to the past books in name or description just a brief mention that Langdon has seen plenty in the past (I’m paraphrasing but you get the gist)
 
Just started a new book, going more mindset and and philosophy over the next few months as I take a break from novels and currently reading “The Daily Stoic” by Ryan Holiday, I’ve also got Marcus Aurelius book, and “How to be stoic” By massimo pigliucci lined up to read.

Stoicism and that part of philosophy fascinates me so I’m taking a deep dive to see about it all.
 
spongebob59 said:
Anyone read the Sam Pope series ?

Read they are going to serialise, described as a cross between Bosch and Reacher.
I'm intrigued
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I'm about 8 in. Vigilante series. If you like that sort of thing it's decent enough. It follows a formula but don't they all. They are an easy read, popcorn stuff.

Not as deep as Bosch, not as good as earlier Reacher.

The author does insist on explaining the background in every book, then each key thing in each book in subsequent books. As though you'd pick up book 6 and need an explanation for everything that's happened before 🙄. I find that very annoying but I just brush over those pages.

Have you tried the Milton series? Similar type of thing. They are a level up, very good.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I'm about 8 in. Vigilante series. If you like that sort of thing it's decent enough. It follows a formula but don't they all. They are an easy read, popcorn stuff.

Not as deep as Bosch, not as good as earlier Reacher.

The author does insist on explaining the background in every book, then each key thing in each book in subsequent books. As though you'd pick up book 6 and need an explanation for everything that's happened before 🙄. I find that very annoying but I just brush over those pages.

Have you tried the Milton series? Similar type of thing. They are a level up, very good.
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Yes, finished the Milton series 👍
 
Just finished Puckoon, Spike Milligan’s first book. Very funny but I was pretty surprised by the casual racism throughout, it was a 2nd hand book printed in 1972. I wonder if later editions were edited?
 
HampshireHog said:
Reading the new Thursday Murder Club, not really sure why I like them, I mean not much happens.

But he has a nice easy going, matey, writing style which is comforting and endearing.
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Really enjoyed them. He really builds the characters over the books and there's a bit of nice gentle humour in them as well.
 
Just finished The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer.

New main character who is very similar to the main guy in the last couple of books. His gf is pretty similar, as is the plot. Enjoyable enough, particularly with Bob narrating on Spotify, but won’t be rushing to get the next one if it’s in a similar vein.
 
rudebhoy said:
Just finished The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer.

New main character who is very similar to the main guy in the last couple of books. His gf is pretty similar, as is the plot. Enjoyable enough, particularly with Bob narrating on Spotify, but won’t be rushing to get the next one if it’s in a similar vein.
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I didn’t enjoy anywhere near as much as the Satsuma/Avocado books, although it was very similar.
 
Death in the Arctic by Tom Hindle. It’s the 2nd book of his I’ve read, the previous being Murder on Lake Garda. They’re fun reading, easy to get into and very much written in the Agatha Christie style mystery books but based in the modern era. I’d highly recommend them both.
 
chico said:
Really enjoyed them. He really builds the characters over the books and there's a bit of nice gentle humour in them as well.
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I’m currently reading the last one. Had to wait a short while as the Netflix programme was still fresh in my mind. Some odd choices for some characters and I didn’t want to picture Pierce Brosnan for example as Ron when reading. The actual book is really enjoyable.
 
Fromtherough said:
I’m currently reading the last one. Had to wait a short while as the Netflix programme was still fresh in my mind. Some odd choices for some characters and I didn’t want to picture Pierce Brosnan for example as Ron when reading. The actual book is really enjoyable.
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I agree, in my head Ron is nothing like Pierce Bronson. I picture him more as Ray Winstone. I thought the most recent book is the weakest so far.
 
chico said:
I agree, in my head Ron is nothing like Pierce Bronson. I picture him more as Ray Winstone. I thought the most recent book is the weakest so far.
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Totally agree. It was a bit of Hollywood casting for the US market. In the end it wasn't as awful as Tom Cruise as Reacher but it was still all wrong. Winstone would have been spot on, as would Bob Hoskins had he been alive still.
 
Just finished Trustee from the Toolroom, by Nevil Shute.

As for all his books (that I love) very straightforward reading and not very complex but interesting plot, great characters and great writing - though from the 50s/60s they need to be read accepting the time they were written. No explicit murder, killing, drugs, violence and as far as sex…well the reader knows when it has likely happened but Shute leaves it to our imagination 😊

Others by Shute? Most will have heard of A Town Like Alice…though have you read it? If not do yourself a lovely favour - it’s not at all what I imagined. And as for On the Beach? Written in and about Cold War times, the story chimes doom-fully today (btw Ava Garner stunning in the film alongside Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins).
 
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