taxman Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Just finished Extraordinary People by Peter May. After being impressed with his Lewis series I picked up the first 5 Enzo McCloud books from the book trolley at work. They are about a Scottish former forensic examiner living in France. I expected more than a pastiche of the Davinci Code, tearing around Paris solving ridiculous and pointless clues. Not great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feargal Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Just in the middle of "Pigs in Heaven" by Barbara Kingsolver. Really enjoying her writing so far, gentle, nice well described characters. I'm starting a reading challenge next, which a friend found on pinterest and might hopefully get me out of my reading rut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Last one I read was 'A Secret Singing' by Roy Lewis, enjoyable early 70s crime novel. Now onto Kuldesak by Richard Cowper, early 70s science fiction novel - one of those where humans are just emerging into the outside world after centuries in an underground silo (the latest example of this sort of thing is Wool by Hugh Howey). Anything by Cowper is well worth reading if you can find it, especially his excellent Twilight of Briareus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Cast Iron by Peter May. The sixth, and thank God, the last in his Enzo McCloud series. All the same, all formulaic and all predictable. Only read the series to satisfy my masochistic urge to prove myself correct. Also painfully egotistical...the central character is obviously based on the author himself, a 60 year old hippy, who is strangely irresistible to any lithe, 20 year old, woman who happens to make an appearance. Soon to be donated to my local cats charity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feargal Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Cast Iron by Peter May. The sixth, and thank God, the last in his Enzo McCloud series. All the same, all formulaic and all predictable. Only read the series to satisfy my masochistic urge to prove myself correct. Also painfully egotistical...the central character is obviously based on the author himself, a 60 year old hippy, who is strangely irresistible to any lithe, 20 year old, woman who happens to make an appearance. Soon to be donated to my local cats charity. ooh, I've fallen right out with Peter May. I'm now queuing up an irsa Sigardsdottir, following an emergency charity table detour of a James Patterson's Alex Cross novel, which was enjoyable fluff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 ooh, I've fallen right out with Peter May. I'm now queuing up an irsa Sigardsdottir, following an emergency charity table detour of a James Patterson's Alex Cross novel, which was enjoyable fluff. Irsa Sigardsdottir...........:love::love::love: If you like Nordic Noir my all time fave is Arnaldur Indriðason. I've been to Iceland, I identify with everything in his books. There are no guns, no car chases, no political chicanery....just mundane procedural boring murder...and it's brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feargal Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Irsa Sigardsdottir...........:love::love::love: If you like Nordic Noir my all time fave is Arnaldur Indriðason. I've been to Iceland, I identify with everything in his books. There are no guns, no car chases, no political chicanery....just mundane procedural boring murder...and it's brilliant! I will have to check him out... Damn you Taxman for increasing the list of stuff I'm not getting round to reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Currently reading Woman with a Birthmark by Hakan Nesser. Like Indradason it is a slow paced investigation but a fast paced story. Very procedural, no car chases or gunfights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lectrolove Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 London by Edward Rutherfurd. A fictionalised history of the city from pre-Roman times to the present day. This is a bit meh, it's just about interesting enough to keep me reading but it's not a work of great literature and I think some of the historical detail is questionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Pass the Gravy by A. A. Fair. This was a pen-name of Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote the Perry Mason mysteries, and the series he wrote under this name featuring Donald Lam and Bertha Cool is just as good. There's something about his writing style that just clicks for me; I've read all the Perry Masons and most of these as well, and enjoyed every one. They were all published by Corgi in the 1960s but are quite hard to get hold of these days - I still need a few more so if anybody has any they'd like to get rid of, drop me a PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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