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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started The Retribution

[Patti (baconater)]

Finished The Night Season and am already a quarter of the way through Kill You Twice.

This one may be the best of the lot.

[Jamie]

Just this second finished End of Watch, the final book in Kings detective trilogy. Very good, without hitting the heights of the second novel which I feel is the strongest of the three. Still had to blink away a tear at the end though.

[Patti (baconater)]

You enjoyed it more than I did, Jamie. It left me flat.

[Trevor]

Just finished

Just started

[Kath]

I loved those 'Empire' books.

[Michael]

Kath wrote: "I loved those 'Empire' books."

Agreed - I'm looking forward to re-reading them as I work my way through the Feist saga :-)

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "I loved those 'Empire' books."

The whole thing was a pretty good series

[Harry]

Finished: Tom Bedlam
Long, but worth staying with.

[Trevor]

Kath wrote: "I loved those 'Empire' books."
This is my first time read of these books, they have been really enjoyable so far but I've a long way to go

[Patti (baconater)]

I've not read any Zelazny in years. Must revisit soon.

[Trevor]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've not read any Zelazny in years. Must revisit soon."

I'm enjoying the Amber Chronicles but I've read better

[David]

Just finished The Dead Can Wait which was very good. Better even than the 1st book in the series.

Just started Caught.

[Pam]

Trevor wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've not read any Zelazny in years. Must revisit soon."

I'm enjoying the Amber Chronicles but I've read better"

I'm re-reading them and don't love them as much as when I was a teen. Have just finished Sign of the Unicorn and currently on the next one, The Hand of Oberon.

[Pam]

Just finished The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, and before that,
Exile by Martin Owton
The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones.

[Stuart]

Just started And Then There Were None and to be honest I can't believe (in my opinionated opinion) how badly it's written! Somehow though I can't stop reading it! I guess that's the trick! Reckon I'll be back to mad old Jack Kerouac as soon as I've finished with Agatha though from what I've read about her I reckon she would have been great to have a drink with!

[Pam]

Finished the second Dalemark book by Diana Wynne Jones - Drowned Ammet.

[Pam]

Stuart wrote: "Just started And Then There Were None and to be honest I can't believe (in my opinionated opinion) how badly it's written! Somehow though I can't stop reading it! I guess that's the tr..."

Whoops - don't tell me that! I'm reading '4.50 from Paddington' and also have 'And Then There Were None'. The Miss Marple one seems OK to me though I'm probably prejudiced as I loved the Joan Hickson versions on the BBC years ago.

[Lexie]

Ooh, be careful! There are some forums on GoodReads where it's considered both illegal and immoral to slight St. Agatha!

[Patti (baconater)]

I don't think I've ever read an Agatha Christie.
I expect they'd be extremely dated.

[Lexie]

It's a bit like (and here's more blasphemy) the first Star Trek series and the Beatles - you sort of had to have them to get to better stuff further down the line. And she did write a huge amount - I just don't think they're as good as Ngaio Marsh or Dorothy L. Sayers (she says, fondling the stirrups on her hobby horse).

[Patti (baconater)]

What a great way of describing it, Lexie!

So I've finished all the Chelsea Cains that have been published. I'll read more of her stuff once it comes out.

Thought I'd give Karen Slaughter a try. Starting with the first that was published. Blindsighted

[Kath]

Just finished a couple of books - train journeys are great for this!

The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... - a four star review.

And The Curse of Clyffe House by Will Macmillan Jones.
http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Jim]

Train journeys are aren't they :-)

I read one of K'Barthan Box Set on a rail journey. The time taken between Lancaster and Euston has never passed so fast :-)

[Pam]

Just finished Dame Agatha's 4.50 From Paddington which starts with a train journey and a witnessed murder! Quite a pleasant read with some amusing bits though not enough Miss Marple for me.

[Trevor]

Pam wrote: "Trevor wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've not read any Zelazny in years. Must revisit soon."

I'm enjoying the Amber Chronicles but I've read better"

I'm re-reading them and don't love them as..."

As I often do with series, I'm reading one Amber Chronicle a month (or thereabouts). Thing is I now have several series on the go, maybe it's time I finished a few.

[Pam]

I'm making my way through a number of series, 3 crime ones and 2 fantasy. Haven't continued one of the fantasy for months - Robin Hobb's - because the books are so enormous but will need to get back to her second trilogy fairly soon.

[Pam]

Read Deception in the Cotswolds by Rebecca Tope.

[Steven]

just finished reading the Hope That Kills by Ed James who is a new author to me and I loved it! not starting anything else as the new Robert Harris is out tomorrow...

[David]

Just finished Caught which was pretty good.

Just started A Hat Full of Sky, which has the Wee Free Men in it and so therefore must be a good thing.

[Pam]

Read a police procedural by Peter Lovesey - Cop to Corpse but wasn't that struck.

[Pam]

The Queen of Crime did not disappoint - And Then There Were None

[Michael]

I've just posted my review for Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest, and it somehow manages to be better than the first book. It's a damn fine read, and in my opinion it's one of the finest examples of modern science fiction:

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Kath]

Sam Kates once again doesn't disappoint with his Sci-fi novella, The Elevator.

http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Michael]

Kath wrote: "Sam Kates once again doesn't disappoint with his Sci-fi novella, The Elevator.

http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201..."

Looks interesting - I've bought it.

[Natasha]

Finished:
Tell No One by Harlan Coben (ace)
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson (v. funny)
The Perfect Murder by Peter James (silly)

Currently reading:
The Bat by Jo Nesbø (rather good)

[Patti (baconater)]

So, I'm slogging my way through The Little Friend.

Sometimes it's quite engaging but I find myself skip reading it more and more. It's quite a tome. I'm on page 267 and only 37%.

Has anyone else read it?

Is it worth the effort to find out whodunit?

[Lexie]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "So, I'm slogging my way through The Little Friend.

Sometimes it's quite engaging but I find myself skip reading it more and more. It's quite a tome. I'm on page 267 and only 37%.

Ha..."
I read it a few years ago and yes, it took a while. The plot has not remotely stayed with me but the feel of the hot town has, dust and snakes and relentless sun and detached people. I can't say it rocked my world and changed my life, though. But it was a bit better than The Goldfinch.

[Sam]

Just finished The Girl on the Train. Hmm. Nothing wrong with the writing - it's very good - but it's difficult to enjoy a book when the main protagonist is irritating beyond words. This reminded me a lot of Gone Girl because I couldn't stand any of the characters in that, either. Also, I saw the ending coming with still around a quarter of the book to go. I can understand why many people like this - like I said, it's very well written - but for me it's no more than an 'okay'.

[Patti (baconater)]

Lexie wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "So, I'm slogging my way through The Little Friend.

Sometimes it's quite engaging but I find myself skip reading it more and more. It's quite a tome. I'm on ..."

It's like reading a southern drawwwwwllllll

[Patti (baconater)]

Sam wrote: "Just finished The Girl on the Train. Hmm. Nothing wrong with the writing - it's very good - but it's difficult to enjoy a book when the main protagonist is irritating beyond words. ..."

You summed up my feelings about those characters.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Just finished

A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Just started

The Amber Keeper by Freda Lightfoot

[Jim]

Sam wrote: "Just finished The Girl on the Train. Hmm. Nothing wrong with the writing - it's very good - but it's difficult to enjoy a book when the main protagonist is irritating beyond words. ..."

that's why I junked The Catcher in the Rye after getting about a quarter of the way through it!

[Jamie]

Sam wrote: "Just finished The Girl on the Train. Hmm. Nothing wrong with the writing - it's very good - but it's difficult to enjoy a book when the main protagonist is irritating beyond words. ..."
Agree. Wasn't keen on either book because of the characters. I felt the same about The Sudden Disappearance of the Frasers.

[Jamie]

Jim wrote: "Sam wrote: "Just finished The Girl on the Train. Hmm. Nothing wrong with the writing - it's very good - but it's difficult to enjoy a book when the main protagonist is irritating be..."
Catcher in the Rye on the other hand I loved!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "So, I'm slogging my way through The Little Friend.

Sometimes it's quite engaging but I find myself skip reading it more and more. It's quite a tome. I'm on page 267 and only 37%.

Ha..."

Afraid I didn't finish it. Booooooored

[Patti (baconater)]

Page 300 and 44%.

I'm not willing to put the time required into finishing it.

Goes against the grain, but I'm gonna skip to the end so I can read something I'll enjoy this evening.

[Elizabeth]

Sam wrote: "Just finished The Girl on the Train. Hmm. Nothing wrong with the writing - it's very good - but it's difficult to enjoy a book when the main protagonist is irritating beyond words. ..."

Same applies I feel to The Ice Twins. Plus an unnecessarily dimensionally confusing ending which I can't describe, not because it was confusing but because it would be a spoiler.

[David]

Just finished - well, last week, but I've been away - Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time , which was interesting, but some of the examples/case studies/whatever were somewhat overlong.

Just started Censored, obviously I can't tell you what it is about.

[Patti (baconater)]

I believe you've 'been away'.

David has been indoctrinated.

Let's throw rocks at him.