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It's fab, very easy and very enjoyable read. Whole series are worth reading in a row.
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Fallen behind a bit here.
Set in Melbourne, essentially two sisters find out they have a half brother and look to connect with him. But things aren't what they seem and the connection could tear the family apart. It was an easy read.
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Oh man, this was a real slog. 512 pages. The blurb hooked me in - It's Christmas, and half the Partickhill police squad is down with flu. Not good timing, with a series of cyanide poisonings in the area, plus two small boys reported missing in the space of a few days. And then there's the monumental task of providing concert security for rock legend Rogan O'Neill... But for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, the nightmare is about to get terrifyingly close to home. For a third boy has now gone missing - Colin's own son, Peter. The team race to find the boys before it is too late.
300 pages in before the bloody boy went missing and the author just wrote slabs and slabs of words that were so overly descriptive that I reckon would have added 100 + pages to the book. Some of the characters were likable which was a plus and the once the boy went missing, that part of the book was enjoyable. But I'd not recommend it. And Glasgow at Christmas time seems utterly depressing. The author made it sound like it was the most miserable ****ing place on Earth.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this. One of my favourite books I've read this year. Engaging, suspenseful, well written, a great mystery with lots of twists that I personally didn't see coming. Highly recommend.
5/5.
Set in Melbourne, essentially two sisters find out they have a half brother and look to connect with him. But things aren't what they seem and the connection could tear the family apart. It was an easy read.
3.5/5
Oh man, this was a real slog. 512 pages. The blurb hooked me in - It's Christmas, and half the Partickhill police squad is down with flu. Not good timing, with a series of cyanide poisonings in the area, plus two small boys reported missing in the space of a few days. And then there's the monumental task of providing concert security for rock legend Rogan O'Neill... But for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, the nightmare is about to get terrifyingly close to home. For a third boy has now gone missing - Colin's own son, Peter. The team race to find the boys before it is too late.
300 pages in before the bloody boy went missing and the author just wrote slabs and slabs of words that were so overly descriptive that I reckon would have added 100 + pages to the book. Some of the characters were likable which was a plus and the once the boy went missing, that part of the book was enjoyable. But I'd not recommend it. And Glasgow at Christmas time seems utterly depressing. The author made it sound like it was the most miserable ****ing place on Earth.
3/5
Thoroughly enjoyed this. One of my favourite books I've read this year. Engaging, suspenseful, well written, a great mystery with lots of twists that I personally didn't see coming. Highly recommend.
5/5.
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Two Lives by Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy). As a young student, in 1969 VS goes to England and stays with his uncle who is of course Indian, and his uncle’s Jewish German wife. Much later, he interviews his uncle before the end of his life, and also gains access to his late aunt’s correspondence, from which he builds a picture of her life. Fascinating.
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I really hate this and it’s usually very obvious when a book has been padded to reach a certain size
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I dunno, maybe 100 is an exaggeration, but there were so many pages where so many paragraphs were just line to line.I really hate this and it’s usually very obvious when a book has been padded to reach a certain size
It's worth comparing with Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill.
Ronan Farrow wrote the second major story about Weinstein, and tells a similar tale about a similar investigation in a very different way.
Fascinating insight into how the system is built to keep these sorts of things under wraps.
Read 'The Gates of Fire' earlier this year, which has segued nicely into 'The End of Sparta' which is set ~70 years later
Both recommended if you enjoy historical fiction. Likewise if you prefer more character driven rather than events 'A Song of Achilles' is a brilliant read.
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been reading Pro wrestling books and soccer books
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which pro wrestle ones?
i have Angles first one both of Foleys and Flairs first one i think
i had a signed copy of HHH but sold it along with hogans
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The Bret Hart book is easily the best wrestling book I have read.
Got the titan books too.
Titan sinking is got to do with the WWF back in 1995.
Titan shattered was the WWF in 1996
Titan screwed was the WWF in 1997
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Which soccer books?
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Oh yeah, read both of them. Wenger's (Red and White) was disappointing.
Iniesta's, Neville's, Keane's, Wright's Bergkamp's and Auclair's book on Henry are very good reads if you're interested.
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Sounds interesting, I'll look for it
Have heard this is an excellent read!
It’s on my list.
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Reading Mark Billingham's latest, he appears to have switched from dark, macabre procedurals to cosy crime. Seems to be a lot of money in it these days.
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I read Cry Baby by him. I found his writing so incredibly basic and almost boring. Slabs of text too which put off reading anything from him again.
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Former stand-up comedian, so makes sense. That said, the humour in this new series tends to fall a bit flat. I went to a talk in a book shop and he said he pitched two ideas to his agent, a crime novel and a comedy book and the agent flat out told him to ditch the comedy book, said unless you're Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, it's nigh on impossible to make money from and for humour to leap of the page the way it does on stage.
Probably need to read his earlier stuff to see if you like his style, he's about 20 years into his career, the quality is declining, though I always found him fairly readable. I'm finding the same with Karin Slaughter. Stuart McBride, on the other hand, seems to be getting better.
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Cry Baby was a very simple and easy read, but I just found the writing overly simple, almost like it was written by a teenager.
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Am reading Cher's autobiography. Very well written, not sure if she used a ghostwriter. Am about a third of the way into it and am amazed by the tough circumstances she and her mother were raised in. Very well written and a remarkably insightful look into the struggles of women in the 1940's to 1950's so far.
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