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Post by theravenking on May 17, 2020 13:38:54 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 24, 2020 2:26:38 GMT
Yesterday I finished reading a book about legendary rock guitarist Randy Bachman called Tales From Beyond The Tap.
Today I started on The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz. This is the first book in the "Jane Hawks" series.
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Post by WullieFort on May 24, 2020 16:16:52 GMT
Having recently finished John Connolly's latest Charlie Parker story, A Book of Bones, I have opted to catch up with another Macho Man. Jack Reacher in The Midnight Line
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Post by WullieFort on May 24, 2020 16:34:06 GMT
I'm reading my first, and almost certainly last, Lawrence Block book, The Sins Of The Fathers, which isn't doing much for me. Don't give up on Lawrence B;ock Have a gander at the KELLER series. Heller aka John Paul Keller. He is an unattached hitman who gets his "missions from an Agent whose name escapes me. See below Keller
Four episodic novels (Hit Man (1998), Hit List (2000), Hit Parade (2006) and Hit Me (2013)) as well as one full-length novel (Hit and Run (2008)) chronicle the life of Keller, a lonely, wistful hitman who originally appeared as a semi-regular feature in Playboy magazine in the 1990s. Most of the novels are fix-ups of related short stories; Hit and Run is the only Keller novel conceived of and written as a single story. In 2016, a new novella was published Keller's Fedora, in which Keller is persuaded to come out of retirement for one last job. Keller's full name is John Paul Keller (a fact mentioned in Hit Man), although he is rarely called anything but Keller in the series. The stories are rarely action-oriented or focused on the details of his crimes, instead being character studies of Keller's personality and the people he meets (e.g., Keller's being hired to kill a major league baseball designated hitter but postponing the act and following the team to away games so the hitter can reach the career milestone of 400 home runs). Originally based in New York City, he later relocates to New Orleans where he lives under the name "Nicholas Edwards". Keller receives assignments via a contact named Dot, who is originally based in White Plains. His assignments usually take him to different cities, where he often envisions himself retiring from the business, daydreaming about settling there, before finishing off the assignment and returning, his fantasies forgotten as a passing dream. Keller's unlikely pastime is stamp collecting, to which he is nearly obsessively devoted. He collects non-U.S. issues, prior to 1940, with a particular interest in stamps from Former colonies of the French Empire. Hit and Run was nominated for The CWA Gold Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. I didn't know about FEDORA. Must check it out. I loved the "hero". He must be the most boring Hitman in history...except he's not.
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Post by mmexis on May 25, 2020 3:51:32 GMT
The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin. I just watched the movie last week back to back with Marathon Man. Nazis everywhere. OMG I read that so many years ago! Loved it and was thinking I needed to re-read.
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Post by WullieFort on May 26, 2020 14:28:17 GMT
There was a receipt bookmark inside my old paperback that told me the last time I read it was 2003. It's good. On my "If I ever get stranded on a desert island" list. Brilliant.
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Post by Zos on May 26, 2020 16:07:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 21:32:50 GMT
Minority Report and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick - I've read about dozen of his novels but none of his short works
The Boat by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim - I've started and stopped this novel about five times, never managing to get past the party at the beginning but once I did and they are out at sea, it's a wonderful novel, the author knows his stuff, his writing is crisp, his descriptions of life aboard are fully realized, even the nasty stuff
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2020 22:38:26 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on May 28, 2020 0:08:14 GMT
THE SATYRICON "What's the answer? It's the parents you should blame. They won't allow their children to be properly controlled." 1st Century AD
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Post by theravenking on May 30, 2020 13:49:42 GMT
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Post by WullieFort on May 30, 2020 16:19:21 GMT
Call for the Dead, John Le Carre
Allow me to introduce Mr George Smiley
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jun 14, 2020 2:25:43 GMT
Took a break from the last book I posted (The Dark by James Herbert) to read this book: I actually just finished it, and will be returning to the Herbert book
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Post by WullieFort on Jun 14, 2020 7:49:27 GMT
Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
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Post by Zos on Jun 14, 2020 9:59:38 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jun 15, 2020 8:24:23 GMT
I'll have to add that to my TBR pile.
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Post by AcousticBlues77 on Jun 16, 2020 14:05:41 GMT
White Noise by Don DeLillo. This is a reread, a great novel and particularly timely as it deals with American consumerism (people panic when they can't find what they want in the supermarket) and the appearance of a toxic cloud that threatens lives and causes massive evacuations.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 18, 2020 19:57:16 GMT
Dreadful Tales by Richard Laymon. A collection of 25 short horror stories by the late author. I'll be starting on it tonight and I'm really looking forward to it. Laymon wrote awesome short stories.
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 18, 2020 20:30:21 GMT
Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
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Post by theravenking on Jun 21, 2020 18:47:54 GMT
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