mjmooney Posted September 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 19, 2021 I'm reading Reading Dante before reading Dante. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 19, 2021 On 30/06/2021 at 14:43, PussEKatt said: My fvourite authors are Stephen Leather and Antony Beevor. Major Gannon says hello with a nose that has been broken several times, the Dan Sheppard series, favourite was the east end gang of armed blaggers he infiltrated in Thailand, nice intro into Lex Harper as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 I have read 16 Steven Leather books so far ( havent read the one you mention though ) I have read 2 of his books concerning the occoult ( Nightmare and Nightshade ) and they are a good change of pace and a good read as well.I reccomend those 2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 20, 2021 6 minutes ago, PussEKatt said: I have read 16 Steven Leather books so far ( havent read the one you mention though ) I have read 2 of his books concerning the occoult ( Nightmare and Nightshade ) and they are a good change of pace and a good read as well.I reccomend those 2. Live Fire is the name of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 Thanks for that,Ill do my best to find it. I am absoutly positive you will like the detective in those other 2 books I mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, PussEKatt said: Thanks for that,Ill do my best to find it. I am absoutly positive you will like the detective in those other 2 books I mentioned. Just downloaded first three Nightingale books to my kindle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 Post what you think of the main character ( the lazy detective ) and the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 20, 2021 1 minute ago, PussEKatt said: Post what you think of the main character ( the lazy detective ) and the books. Will do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 I read a book for the first time in... an embarrassing amount of time, although it was Bob Mortimers autobiography. Pretty good, some good little stories etc, just wish it had more detail and info in it - all seemed a bit "glossed over", but it's very funny 9.5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 24 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: I read a book for the first time in... an embarrassing amount of time, although it was Bob Mortimers autobiography. Pretty good, some good little stories etc, just wish it had more detail and info in it - all seemed a bit "glossed over", but it's very funny 9.5/10 If you liked that, check out James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes - very funny anecdotes from his life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 I've gone through all the Bernie Gunthers again. Philip Kerr was such a fine writer. After that I'm going to revisit the Downing Station Series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 20, 2021 3 hours ago, AVFC_Hitz said: I've gone through all the Bernie Gunthers again. Philip Kerr was such a fine writer. After that I'm going to revisit the Downing Station Series. Wanted to like Kerr, but I couldn't. Downing, much better. Alan Furst also not bad in that genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Salad Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 3 hours ago, AVFC_Hitz said: I've gone through all the Bernie Gunthers again. Philip Kerr was such a fine writer. After that I'm going to revisit the Downing Station Series. Downing station is a great series for sure. 14 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Wanted to like Kerr, but I couldn't. Downing, much better. Alan Furst also not bad in that genre. Yeah Kerr was never my cup of tea but Furst is great. In a similar vein I also recommend John Lawton and Mick Herron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 On 12/07/2021 at 05:59, fightoffyour said: I find Beevor's a bit lightweight if I'm honest. He's fine for an overview. Even more appropriate considering the following post is about (a different) David Mitchell. You must mean a different Antony Beevor,because the one that I am talking about only writes stuff about WW II and not fiction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted September 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 21, 2021 11 minutes ago, PussEKatt said: You must mean a different Antony Beevor,because the one that I am talking about only writes stuff about WW II and not fiction. It was just a pretty niche Peep Show (starring David Mitchell, not the author [although this one has written books too I'm sure]) reference, which is where I've heard of Beevor (yes the WWII guy) from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 23, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 23, 2021 (Before I get onto Dante...) I never read sports auto/biographies. For this one I am making an exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 On 21/09/2021 at 13:19, PussEKatt said: You must mean a different Antony Beevor,because the one that I am talking about only writes stuff about WW II and not fiction. If you're into WW2 stuff I enjoyed A Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson, which I read a few years ago. It's not in my normal wheelhouse but I picked it up on a friend's recommendation and it was good. Follows a Hurricane squadron in the early days of the war and into the Battle of Britain. Long book but it's quite funny in places and the characters are good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy these days. There's quite a lot of good fantasy that's come out in the last 20 years (i.e. post Game of Thrones) that's much more grounded than it used to be. Older fantasy work often comes across as the fantasy of a weird and slightly pervy old man but there's a lot of good authors writing fantasy now. Sci-fi is a similar story in some regards (except many of the classics still hold up). Happy to make some recommendations about books involving aliens and laser guns if anyone is interested, but as that's a bit niche I'd recommend Flowers for Algernon and the book of The Martian for anyone that isn't. Both really good books and neither are particularly "genre". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Salad Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 14 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said: I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy these days. There's quite a lot of good fantasy that's come out in the last 20 years (i.e. post Game of Thrones) that's much more grounded than it used to be. Older fantasy work often comes across as the fantasy of a weird and slightly pervy old man but there's a lot of good authors writing fantasy now. Sci-fi is a similar story in some regards (except many of the classics still hold up). Happy to make some recommendations about books involving aliens and laser guns if anyone is interested, but as that's a bit niche I'd recommend Flowers for Algernon and the book of The Martian for anyone that isn't. Both really good books and neither are particularly "genre". I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy as well. If I had to say my favorite authors of those genre's they would be Alastair Reynolds and Mark Lawrence and their respective series. Favorite 'classic' series would probably be the Riddlemaster of Hed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 1 minute ago, Big Salad said: I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy as well. If I had to say my favorite authors of those genre's they would be Alastair Reynolds and Mark Lawrence and their respective series. Favorite 'classic' series would probably be the Riddlemaster of Hed Funnily enough I demolished most of Mark Lawrence's work over the past year or so and read Revelation Space recently too. Excellent stuff. I particularly enjoyed Red Sister. Any of Reynolds other work you'd recommend? Revelation Space was very good. A bit heavier than I usually go but it was worth it. Similar to Children of Time by Aiden Tchaikovsky in that regard, that's well worth a read if you've not I'm assuming you've read most of the big name fantasy if you've worked down to Lawrence? Lies of Locke Lamora, the First Law trilogy, Name of the Wind, Brandon Sanderson's many series, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts