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Originally posted by @torunnI really enjoyed it. I am now reading Cockroaches by the same author. I tend to read most, if not all of the books written by an author I enjoy and thus far he doesn't disappoint.
Let us know what you think of it, please.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesGood 🙂 but may I recommend that you don't try 'The Thirst', unless you have already read it.
I really enjoyed it. I am now reading Cockroaches by the same author. I tend to read most, if not all of the books written by an author I enjoy and thus far he doesn't disappoint.
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Originally posted by @torunnI toyed with the idea but take your recommendations seriously as all those you have "guided" me to have been, in my mind, winners and for that I thank you. OK Nesbo I found on my own but the ones you've recommended have been winners.
Good 🙂 but may I recommend that you don't try 'The Thirst', unless you have already read it.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesAnd so have the books you suggested to me. 🙂 The best ones, in my opinion are "The curious Incident of the dog in the night-time" and "My family and other animals".
I toyed with the idea but take your recommendations seriously as all those you have "guided" me to have been, in my mind, winners and for that I thank you. OK Nesbo I found on my own but the ones you've recommended have been winners.
Currently reading two books, just work on the first one I pick up🙂
Eater, by Gregory Benford and Ultima by Stephen Baxter, both sci fi. Eater, about a magnetic life form that can take in an asteroid and using a small black hole dismember the asteroid and use the energy generated to propel itself though the universe, and is over a billion years old, now aiming at Earth, demanding humans to be downloaded to digital copies and with the intention of destroying Earth.
Ultima is an alternate universe where Rome never died out and now has space travel and such.
Jens Lapidus' 'VIP-Room' which I have just finished reading. Lapidus is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author. He made his writing debut in August 2006 with 'Snabba Cash', an account of the Stockholm underworld, and the first of the Stockholm Noir trilogy.
His writing has been compared to James Ellroy and Dennis Lehane.
Next book, My Brilliant Friend (2012), is the first of the four-volume work known as 'Neapolitan Novels'.
Originally posted by @torunnI'm taking a break to read 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen.This copy was given to me as appreciation by my neighbour who needed my help with an old typewriter (60's perhaps). He still writes his letters by hand but having found this old typewriter, he decided to try it. That's cute, I think.
Jens Lapidus' 'VIP-Room' which I have just finished reading. Lapidus is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author. He made his writing debut in August 2006 with 'Snabba Cash', an account of the Stockholm underworld, and the first of the Stockholm Noir trilogy.
His writing has been compared to James Ellroy and Dennis Lehane.
Next book, My Brilliant Friend (2012), is the first of the four-volume work known as 'Neapolitan Novels'.
Originally posted by @ponderableFinished that one...I won't reread it I think.
Re-reading The View from the Mirror Tetralogie by Ian Irvine.
Still a good read. Now in volume 3 (Dark is the Moon)
I now reread Blaylock: Lord Kelvin's machine
quite funny up to now.
Originally posted by @ponderableWhat's that about? Right now I am reading Ultima by Sephen Baxter, sci fi alternate universe where the Roman empire goes interstellar🙂
Finished that one...I won't reread it I think.
I now reread Blaylock: Lord Kelvin's machine
quite funny up to now.
Originally posted by @sonhouseIt is a steampunk novel, as I found out it is in a serioes.
What's that about? Right now I am reading Ultima by Sephen Baxter, sci fi alternate universe where the Roman empire goes interstellar🙂
The machine is a time-machine. But we have a Lord (Langdon St. Ives) who is a Kind of Amateur scientist and detective.
The Royal Society whose members are very unkind to St. Ives.
Lord Kelvin himself, developing interesting devices on magnetism.
We also have the rogue scientist. And we have a lot of mysterious persons.
It is a bit like a Sherlock Holems book with some steampunk science in it. Very entertaining.