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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #8702
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,960 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished John Connolly's crime thriller The Dirty South. While part of the author's excellent Charlie Parker series this is like an origin story book rather then a continuation of that series. But it is another great read in the series all the same.



  • #8703
    Nemanrio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Nemanrio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123567098#Comment_123567098

    Have you read all the other books in between? What did you think of them?



  • #8704
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,960 ✭✭✭eire4


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123579515#Comment_123579515

    I have read all the books in his Parker series up till The Dirty South and I would highly recommend them. Absolutely loved them all. Planty of action, good characters and a good on going story line woven through them.



  • #8705
    Xofpod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Read and enjoyed All I did was shoot my man, Walter Mosley. It's by the writer of the Easy Rawlins series but set in contemporary New York. Same focus on crime, detectives/PIs, wealth and race concerns, etc. Same noir type focus and - tbh- a somewhat similar main character.

    I did the same as with the Easy Rawlins series and jumped in somewhere in the middle. Previously that was by chance but this time consciously; I found with the other series that I enjoyed going back and reading the earlier books, getting backstory on the characters I'd already met, etc. Not sure how other readers feel about jumping into a series midway? I know I would have been allergic previously but Im coming around to the idea…



  • #8706
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,960 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished The final book in Robert Ludlum's Bourne thriller series The Bourne Ultimatum and enjoyed it very much.



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  • #8707
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,095 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "Decypher" by Stel Pavlou.

    Not my usual fare, but I picked it up in one of those "leave one, take one, return it when you're done" type of book swap places and I'd thought it'd be good enough to pass the time.

    I'm only a few pages in, but so far Iike the style of writing.

    It's set in 2012 (think: Mayan calendar).

    A US company that has been doing illegal drilling in the Antarctic comes across a massive wall made of an incredibly rare artificial diamond miles underground. The large chunks that emerged are covered in strange pre-cuneiform characters. The US military and a group of scientists have been summoned to CERN in the middle of a solar storm to try and decypher them. Have they discovered Atlantis? Is the end of the world actually approaching?



  • #8708
    Quiet Achiever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭Quiet Achiever


    ^^ Not my usual either but soujds intriguing, can you let us know how ot goes?

    I'm re-reading East of Eden. No more to be said.



  • #8709
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,095 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123682111#Comment_123682111

    Will do.

    Post edited by New Home on


  • #8710
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,095 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123682111#Comment_123682111

    I must say, it's quite riveting (still only a few pages in). I was wondering whether all the scientific and historical data were made up, but at the end of the book I found three pages of references - it's obviously well researched!



  • #8711
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,960 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished Anne Rice's Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. Sadly, due to her death it turned out to be her penultimate book in the classic Vampire series. It's maybe a little bit different to the majority of the series in that it is less focused on vampires and their history and has more of an element of fantasy type book to it. A decent read but for me not quite at the same level as earlier vampire chronicles books.



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  • #8712
    Xofpod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Read a few on holidays.

    Heart, Be At Peace, the new Donal Ryan, a follow-up to the Spinning Heart from 10+ years ago. I love his writing so this was always going to land well with me. Not quite as strong as the first one though.

    The City We Became, NK Jemisin. Kind of urban fantasy/horror, bit of a Stephen King vibe. Decent enough, but not a patch on her Broken Earth trilogy, the best fantasy books I've read in a long time.

    Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley. I finally went back and read the first in his Easy Rawlins series and up there with the best of the series. Detective/noir set in 40's LA.

    Also reading Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain. More reflections on the food industry in the vein of Kitchen Confidential. Equal parts irritating and well-written.



  • #8713
    Xofpod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    My Father's House, Joseph O'Connor. Historic fiction (based on real life characters) on the escape line operating out of the Vatican in WWII, led by an Irish priest. I liked some of his previous books (Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls - didn't read the more recent ones) and this seems to be channelling Alan Furst-style wartime espionage vibes, so I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.



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