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and would ya recommend it?

I'm reading 'Full Dark, No Stars' by Stephen King!

Just started so can't really say I can recommend it just yet!

You can't beat a bit of Stephen King!

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Malari wrote: »

Ferney, by James Long.

I appreciate a lot of work went into the historical research for this novel, and the writing is quite beautiful at times, but I just couldn't get on board with the central love story. I didn't identify with the characters and
I found myself sympathising with the husband.
I don't think I'll bother with the sequel.

I absolutely LLLOVE that book!!! I read it back in 1998, mind you. I agree with what you're saying about

the husband

, but I thought the story was so brilliant I was completely hooked (again, this was 20 years ago).

The sequel ("The Lives She Left Behind"), which is set something like 15 years later (I can't remember exactly), answers some of the questions left from "Ferney" and is one of those books you can't stop reading, it's written beautifully and is very well structured, and again the historical part is very well researched, too, but I felt disappointed by the ending, I felt like James Long wanted to put a very definite stop to any chance of a further volume - to me it sounded like the editors forced him to write it - either that or he got fed up and put those characters behind him ages before he had finished to write the sequel.

James Long (who has also written a couple of books along the same lines under the pseudonym Will Davenport - "The Sinner" and "The Painter", if I remember correctly), used to be a BBC journalist. His first few novels were mostly crime/thrillers/espionage type of things, but he has an obvious passion for history. He has also co-written "The Plot Against Pepys" with his historian son Ben Long .

He's one of my favourite authors (and I don't even like history).

Vojera

I'm reading The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman, the follow-up to the His Dark Materials series.

I'm always surprised at how well Pullman captures the world from the point of view of a child. It feels very real.

Hector Bellend

The complete Sherlock Holmes.

I only really got into reading as a twenty something. I was a nerd reader as a teenager and didn't read a lot of fiction. Only getting around to most of the classics now.

Still better late that never. Almost finished reading outliers by your man Malcolm Gladwell and am just about to start a book on fifa corruption.

Malari

Ferney, by James Long.

I appreciate a lot of work went into the historical research for this novel, and the writing is quite beautiful at times, but I just couldn't get on board with the central love story. I didn't identify with the characters and

I found myself sympathising with the husband.

I don't think I'll bother with the sequel.

rushfan

appledrop wrote:

Right so finished reading Fatherland. I did really enjoy it but disappointed with the ending. Anyone else feel the same?

It's on the list!! Just finished Conclave which wasn't bad, intriguing ending.

shoegal1

Just finished The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay. Part 1 of a trilogy. From 19th C London to the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, a really good read.

kimokanto

I recently finished David Szalay's book - "All that man is"
It reads more like a collection of short stories than a novel but this in no way reduces the quality of this book.
There is a subtlety & simplicity to his writing which belies its magnificance.
Bleak at times but touchingly sensative & funny also.

Inspector Coptoor

Reading a physics book called
“the greatest story ever ...so far. Why are we here” by Lawrence M Krauss.

I have a biochemistry background and physics is not my strongpoint but this book is giving me a much better understanding of quantum mechanics.
Would recommend.

appledrop

Right so finished reading Fatherland. I did really enjoy it but disappointed with the ending. Anyone else feel the same?

Thargor

Riddle101 wrote: »

I just bought Frank Herbert's Dune novel along with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Can't wait to get stuck into them as i've been really eager to read Dune for a while now.

Dune is an amazing read, enjoy it, probably my all time favourite.

appledrop

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like an interesting read definitely on the list for the next book. If we get this snow in that we are promised I'll be flying through them all!

Fann Linn

appledrop wrote: »

How are you finding it? I recently read The Choice by Edith Ever and it was a very interesting read. Thinking of buying this one next.

I've an interest in history and have a 'gra' for WW2 to be honest, so just finding another viewpoint on this terrible time.

Saying that, the story itself is interesting, and the subjects pov is quite original and yet so very , very central to the full horrors of Auschwitz. It's really amazing how Man can be so barbaric and yet also amazing how Man can struggle to survive that very barbarity.

appledrop

Fann Linn wrote: »

The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.

How are you finding it? I recently read The Choice by Edith Ever and it was a very interesting read. Thinking of buying this one next.

Fann Linn

The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.

appledrop

Fatherland by Robert Harris. More of a thriller than I was expecting which I wouldnt usually read but very enjoyable all the same.

appledrop

gutenberg wrote: »

I started The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

That book is unreal. Up there with one of my favourites.

pitifulgod

gutenberg wrote: »

I started The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

Definitely up there as my favourite book that I read last year.

gutenberg

I started The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

Benildus

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

banie01

Riddle101 wrote: »

I just bought Frank Herbert's Dune novel along with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Can't wait to get stuck into them as i've been really eager to read Dune for a while now.

Dune really is a fantastic book, massive scope and still an allegory for so much of the world.

I'd recommend God Emperor too, the later books and in particular the cash ins by Herberts son are poor.

Riddle101

I just bought Frank Herbert's Dune novel along with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Can't wait to get stuck into them as i've been really eager to read Dune for a while now.

Ipso

Lancaster against York by Trevor Royle. After reading some fictionalized history on the war of the Roses I decided to read something more non fiction based. He also has a book on the Cromwellian wars which I might read at some point.
Also the North Water, mentioned above, sounds good. Going to read that next.

eviltwin

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Reading a thriller is a change of pace for me but this one was recommended to me by friends and work colleagues ,so decided to give it a go.
Just finished chapter two and I may already be hooked.:D

I loved this book, not the kind of thing I usually read very enjoyable.

Wailin

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Reading a thriller is a change of pace for me but this one was recommended to me by friends and work colleagues ,so decided to give it a go.
Just finished chapter two and I may already be hooked.:D

Was very underwhelmed with this book to be honest and can't see what all the fuss is about. Lags badly in the middle and only picks up near the end.

Paddy Samurai

Reading a thriller is a change of pace for me but this one was recommended to me by friends and work colleagues ,so decided to give it a go.
Just finished chapter two and I may already be hooked.:D

Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM Unputdownable ,Booklist The best book of 2014 Suspense Magazine The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The New York Post A breakneck race against time and an implacable enemy An anonymous young woman murdered in a run down hotel all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square .A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity .One path links them all and only one man can make the journey

Wailin

kimokanto wrote: »

Just finished "The North Water" by Ian McGuire.
Victorian era novel set in the dying days of the whaling industry.

This novel plays out in a tough world & is an unrelenting, exciting & violent read.

I loved it

Sounds like my kind of book...just ordered it!

Wailin

Just finished Call of the Wild by Jack London. Fantastic little book that I should have read years ago as a teenager. Starting White Fang next.

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A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold by George R.R Martin

Dial Hard

A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates. The protagonist is a racist, sexist, bigoted evangelical Christian whom I thoroughly hate. I'm bet into it.

eisenberg1

A ton of Malice - Barry McKinly

Half way thru, very enjoyable