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Both Max Hastings & Antony Beevor are class writers, great reads their books and I always felt they were in competition with each other.
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Jul 1, 2021 - 11:01 AM
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joan hue
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Joan, I noted your comments about We Begin at the End and will look for it. Sounds like it might share some similar ground with Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, a mystery set in small town Minnesota, early 60s with the main characters being children. Definitely brought to mind Harper Lee. Krueger has a series, which I have not read; this is a stand alone, and I loved it.
Have you read the massive trilogy by Greg Iles? Very gripping. Not often you page turners that are 800 pages, much less three of them.
Tom, I hope you like it. I hope mgh saw my post as he and I both like Jane Harper's The Dry, and she recommended it.
Villagarden, it is not really like Ordinary Grace. Kruger, if my memory is correct, seems more gentle. Yes, it this novel is in a small town with children. Duchess is scarred and very rough. She swears more than a Longshoreman. (Pardon the cliche.) My throat closed off in a few places which is kind of like trying to avoid tears. My husband just finished it and could not put it down.
I know about Iles' trilogy. When so many books are done on my reserve list, I will check them out. I'm about to start Weir's Hail Mary which was recommended in an above post.
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I'm reading The Dry now. Just saw the movie and was very impressed.
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I like Hanks but he comes showing up in films of my favorite books: News of the World, A Man Called Ove, and, supposedly, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, which is a prophetic slice of Berlin history in the early 30s. Hopefully, when they film A Gentleman in Moscow Hanks will be busy.
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i loved the first 7 or 8 of the Reacher books. I admired the way Child could grab the reader with the first paragraph and the way he took you into Reacher's mind, which made the fight scenes more palatable. Also, some of the plots were so simple that they were just brilliant. No need to avert WW3, know what I mean?
But a few years ago the formula started to get stale and i thought Child was just running out of gas. Very few authors can pull off a long-running series and maintain the spark. It's hard to pull away from such an annual moneymaker.
So I'm not surprised he's stepping down. Maybe his brother will provide some fresh ideas.
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Jul 9, 2021 - 10:10 PM
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pete
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By now, Child has probably written several dozen versions of this scene - and I enjoy them every time!
Me too!
I had a really trippy experience last year. I read the first chapter of the latest book about 6 months before the book was published. The publisher put it online as a teaser. Six months later I had totally forgotten I had already read the first chapter, so when I started it, I was like "Uhm, I've read this...WTF? ... Is my copy one big publishing error? or did I do some time travelling I had forgotten about?"
I was absolutely stumped - for about ten minutes. I even checked out the opening chapters of the previous 5-6 books expecting to see that same chapter. And then I finally remembered the preview that was offered by the publisher. That was a huge relief, because I thought I had gone mad!
Recent books I've read: Wheel of Time 0: New Spring - a little prequel, The Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers, The Dresden Files 4: Summer Knight, Use of Weapons (third of Iain Banks' Culture books), The Darkening Age: The Christianity ...., Earth Abides.
Currently reading two non-fictions simiutaneously (kind of) Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump's.... and The Aliens Are Coming!
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Aug 2, 2021 - 9:57 PM
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Buttons
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I’m reading A Man Called Ove, by Fredrick Backman. Very funny and moving.
Tall Guy, I loved that book. FYI, there is a Swedish movie of this novel that was fairly good. Also, Tom Hanks is making an American version of this film. Not sure that will work.
Also, if you like Ove, I would recommend that you read Beartown by the same author.
Just finished a Man Called Ove last week. So good. Even though I'm only in my 30s I'm a curmudgeon like Ove and it drives my wife crazy in social settings. Definitely picking up the rest of Backman's books at some time.
Currently I'm reading 1984 and Three Felonies a Day (it's about every American committing three felonies a day just going about their regular day).
I also recommend looking up Daniel Silva's latest interview with Anderson Cooper (I won't post it here because it may be considered political being he writes political thrillers). Silva talks about listening to movie scores while writing his books. Anderson Cooper seems baffled that anyone would listen to film scores and then he admits he has listened to the Mission score. BTW. Highly recommend Daniel Silva to those of you who like political thrillers. He's easily the master right now and no one comes close.
I've also been collecting a bunch of classics in the Everyman's Library collection. They are nice hard covers printed and bound in Germany and most of them have sown spines. They are really expensive so I wait until they are under $20 on Amazon. Just picked up A Passage to India, Rebecca, Frankenstein, and Emma (thought I should at least try one Jane Austen book even though I'll probably hate it).
AND I recently subscribed to Library of America. My first purchase was the complete Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper which comes with a free volume of Washington Irving stories. 3,500 pages between these three books. Ugh. We'll see if I ever get through them all.
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