14 Jul 18
Originally posted by @torunnA guilty pleasure of mine is reading spy novels.
Putting other books aside for a while to read John Le Carré 'A Legacy of Spies'.
People used to give me strange looks when I read Ian Fleming at lunch.
14 Jul 18
Originally posted by @ponderableMichener is very wordy; I had the same problem when I started reading James Clavell.
James A. Michener: Alaska
Not bad, got stuck the last time I tried I am over that mark already (250/1100 pages)
15 Jul 18
Originally posted by @suzianneWhat Sci Fi are you reading, if any?
Michener is very wordy; I had the same problem when I started reading James Clavell.
Just finished 'time travelers never die' Jack McDevitt. Something like his 17th novel and more collabs.
23 Jul 18
Originally posted by @ponderableI gave up the book it is just not my fare.
James A. Michener: Alaska
Not bad, got stuck the last time I tried I am over that mark already (250/1100 pages)
UI am now reading Schätzing: der Schwarm. A thirller with some real science and some wile extrapolations...
26 Jul 18
Originally posted by @great-big-steesThat was a movie in 2004.
The Dead Will Tell - Linda Castillo
05 Aug 18
Originally posted by @sonhouseNow reading Wolf Hall, something i had on my list for years. Up to now a good read.
That was a movie in 2004.
05 Aug 18
Originally posted by @ponderableI agree, very well written book about very interesting times.
Now reading Wolf Hall, something i had on my list for years. Up to now a good read.
06 Aug 18
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Originally posted by @shallow-blueI won't. It just reminds me of the time I studied American literature at the University, late 70's. It was one of the novels we absolutely had to read, including writers such as J. D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau to mention a few - all of them great to read but my favourites still are Salinger and Hawthorne.
Just finished The Nursing Home Murder, by Ngaio Marsh. Not bad, but she's written better.
Just about to start Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut. Don't spoil it for me!
07 Aug 18
Originally posted by @torunnSalinger was a one hit wonder..who then faded into oblivion ...Orwell wrote novels that are still meaningful..
all of them great to read but my favourites still are Salinger and Hawthorne.[/b]
.. Now reading "The Night Manager" by Le' Carre'