Im reading matt hilton's dead men's dust featuring his character joe hunter.
What book are you currently reading?
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In the last two days I have read
In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda.
Based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, an Afgani boy, who was abandoned by his mother in Pakistan when he was 10 and who finally found a home in Italy when he was 15 having made his way through Iran, Turkey and Greece. 4/5.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. True story about a woman about a woman who confined to bed following a mysterious illness. Barely able to move Elisabeth spends many hours observing a snail in a terrarium beside her bed. A fascinating read. 4.5/5
In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda.
Based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, an Afgani boy, who was abandoned by his mother in Pakistan when he was 10 and who finally found a home in Italy when he was 15 having made his way through Iran, Turkey and Greece. 4/5.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. True story about a woman about a woman who confined to bed following a mysterious illness. Barely able to move Elisabeth spends many hours observing a snail in a terrarium beside her bed. A fascinating read. 4.5/5
If you're going to do them in chronological order, according to the book "Ian Fleming's James Bond" by John Griswold, the Octopussy stories apparently take place in the period after Thunderball. I'd always assumed The Living Daylights was from the post-OHMSS period, myself.
I strongly recommend tracking down a copy of John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 (I think it was recently republished), which is a novel built around the events of the Fleming books.
Back to the main topic, I've just started The Big Book of Adventure Stories, a new compilation - 900 double-column pages thick - of classic pulp adventure stories. This thing has everything from the first Conan story to Armageddon 2419 (the first Buck Rogers novel) to Tarzan the Terrible. It'll keep me busy for a while.
Alex
Batman & Philosophy
Making my way through Death Note Black Edition Volume 1 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Currently readuing On The Road by Jack Kerouac on Kindle and listening to Dune on iPod. The former is excellent in places but the latter is a classic. Started reading it in book form when I was much younger, but failed to persevere.
Finished Death Note Vol 1 and started Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix properly now also making my way through Ghost Story for the second time.
I'm reading through Fleming's Bond novels in order, too, in amongst other things. I've read through Thunderball so far.
I've also started the Parker novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) and have read the first three so far: The Hunter (1962), The Man with the Getaway Face (1963), and The Outfit (1963). They make for very addictive reading.
Moved on to Volume 2 last night. Good books, and I love Shelby Foote, but at times he can get a bit long winded. It's been more of a chore reading these volumes than I expected.
Currently reading through Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta books again to see if I can get further than I did before. I'm reading Cruel and Unusual at the moment, which is book 4.
Also still reading Greg Cox's CSI: Shock Treatment on the Kindle.
Also still reading Greg Cox's CSI: Shock Treatment on the Kindle.
I am wading my way through the Song of Ice and Fire books.
I'm not liking them at all, but I'm determined to finish them so that I can rant about them and not be accused of not having read them
I'm not liking them at all, but I'm determined to finish them so that I can rant about them and not be accused of not having read them
I think reading just the first one is enough to establish a sufficient basis to express an opinion on the series. Those of us who are fans of the series almost universally hold the first three books in high regard, so it's not as if anyone's going to say, "Well, the first one isn't that good, but they get better later." There's really no reason to subject yourself to the chore of continuing to read further books of such length if you're not enjoying them at all.
Took a break from 30s/40s crime fiction (recently finished Double Indemnity and Farewell, My Lovely) to read L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
