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Old 22-07-2012, 21:56
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Last week I finished Whispers Under Ground, the third book in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.
It's one of the books I enjoyed most in the last ten years. The whole series is fantastic. Urban fantasy at it's best.

In May I was in London and visited some of the places mentioned in the book by accident, as the book came out 4th week of June. It just gave it that little bit extra.
I also visited Russell Square and tried to imagine which one of the buildings could be the Folly.

I've started on Harry Turtledove's In the Balance, the first book of the Wordlwar series.
It's my first foray into alternative history-SF and I must say, I like it.
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Old 22-07-2012, 23:20
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Skeleton Key - Stephen King

Have read this collection of short stories before but had forgotten how good they are.

ps If you are about to go swimming you don't want to read The Raft which is one of them
Actually its Skeleton Crew - I got it mixed up with Dumas Key:yawn:
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Old 23-07-2012, 09:08
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I finished The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford. Have to say I struggled a bit with it. The book does a great job of pulling you in right away but I struggled with the non-linear narative. I don't know if it was because I was reading it in hospital and kept getting interuppted but I found it had to keep the chronology clear in my head and some of the lesser characters passed me by.

There's not a lot to like about any of the characters, or at least not for me and the whole unreliable narrator got on my nerves after a while. A cautionaty tale about the dangers of Victorian sexual repression and keeping up appearences. Interesting but not gripping....and there's no soldiering in it at all!

Onwards and upwards with Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
I've just finished The Good Soldier too and your comments summarises my feelings exactly .. and I had no excuse .. not in hospital ! Hope you are feeling better !
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Old 23-07-2012, 19:00
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Chevy Stevens- Still Missing
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Old 23-07-2012, 19:29
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Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman. Brilliant read so far.
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Old 23-07-2012, 20:11
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Back today from a week in the sun and managed to read 4 and half books whilst sunning myself by the pool. Very tough week as you can imagine!

Anyway, books read were:

XO by Jeffrey Deaver
As if by Magic by Kerry Wilkinson
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (absolutely brilliant)
The Escape Artist by Diane Chamberlain

Also halfway through 77 Days in September by Ray Gorham

All really good reads, and also managed to break the 100 books read barrier on my Kindle so quite pleased about that too!
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Old 24-07-2012, 10:31
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The Rozabal Line by Ashwin Sanghi. Can't get into it at all and finding it very confusing but I will not give up
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Old 24-07-2012, 10:38
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Ploughing through "Mockingjay" cannot wait to finish it since I am impatiently waiting to start either "The Mistborn Trilogy" or Book 4 from a "A Song of Fire & Ice"
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Old 24-07-2012, 17:00
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Fall of Giants. 11% in so far and really enjoying it.
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Old 24-07-2012, 20:35
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The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer. I may not be the right age group for it, but I am enjoying it nonetheless.
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Old 24-07-2012, 20:49
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The Rozabal line is done, just started 1st to Die by James Patterson. I'm enjoying it so far, but I have it on kindle and it's so hard to read, random sentences are turning into paragraphs, I's are coming up as 1s, taking a lot of concentration but it's good none the less! Perks of being a student means I get to take advantage of soaking up the sun and reading ha ha
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Old 25-07-2012, 12:13
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I've just finished The Good Soldier too and your comments summarises my feelings exactly .. and I had no excuse .. not in hospital ! Hope you are feeling better !
Glad to know it wasn't just me and I'm in fighting form thanks for asking.
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Old 25-07-2012, 19:46
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Stuart MacBride- Broken Skin
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Old 26-07-2012, 16:57
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Finished "To Kill a Mockingbird". A breath of fresh air because the previous book I read was 50 shades of Grey

lots of amazing quotes for us to memorise and understand their meanings.
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Old 26-07-2012, 21:12
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Just read Holiday sos by Ben McFarlane, he is a doctor that travels out to repatriate those abroad that have had an illness or accident while on holiday.
It was a really good read, quite funny at times but also sad.
No messing about with stories or his medical training etc, straight to his first job and he kept the stories coming.
It was quite hard to put down it was so interesting,.
It was worth every penny.
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Old 27-07-2012, 11:52
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Finished S J Watson's Before I Go to Sleep. Well written nonsense! Good for a light read over summer .. but very implausible and there's distinct lack of tension .. one of those over-hyped bestsellers to be filed or binned in the same category as The Da Vinci Code, those Mayer werewolf tales and these Shade of Grey books that ladies seem to be raviong about !
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Old 27-07-2012, 16:30
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I've just started Along Came a Spider by James Patterson. Never read an Alex Cross book before and I'm enjoying it
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Old 27-07-2012, 17:56
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Finished S J Watson's Before I Go to Sleep. Well written nonsense! Good for a light read over summer .. but very implausible and there's distinct lack of tension .. one of those over-hyped bestsellers to be filed or binned in the same category as The Da Vinci Code, those Mayer werewolf tales and these Shade of Grey books that ladies seem to be raviong about !
"Before I Go To Sleep" was one of my favourite reads so far this year. I thought it had plenty of tension. I didn't realise until afterwards that it was a bestseller - it was recommended to me by someone who had enjoyed it. I definitely don't agree with your categorisation
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Old 27-07-2012, 17:59
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Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain, finding it hard to warm to the characters, so far, but it seem's interesting.
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Old 27-07-2012, 19:03
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Patriot Games by Tom Clancy.
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Old 27-07-2012, 21:12
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Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain, finding it hard to warm to the characters, so far, but it seem's interesting.
I really like this series,although I cant help but think Ms. Cain is a little disturbed
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Old 27-07-2012, 21:15
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I have just finished The burning soul by John Connolly,and The 12th victim by Katia Leif,and am now reading The treatment by Mo Hayder
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Old 27-07-2012, 23:47
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I really like this series,although I cant help but think Ms. Cain is a little disturbed
Only seventy pages into it, and I can tell there'll be some deep-seated reasons for people being unlikable, even more than i know already. So looking forward, with a bit of dread, to the rest of it.
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Old 28-07-2012, 09:38
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Life Sentences by Laura Lipman. Okish but probably won't read any more of hers.
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Old 28-07-2012, 18:39
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Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
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