Read any good books this holiday?

[Vetseun]

I have an incredible urge to read a Stephen King book. Dont know why, but I do.

[eddy]

I have an incredible urge to read a Stephen King book. Dont know why, but I do.

Read Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption. Best of his books.

[Uni]

Read Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption. Best of his books.

Easily my top 3 authors , my favourite book is the fantasy The Talisman he wrote with Peter Straub. Interestingly I haven't enjoyed his more recent stuff, but every time I'm at the book shop,looking through his titles, it's a case of I've read it all, but just looking online now there's a few titles from 2015 that I haven't read. Time to do some book shopping, just in time for winter hibernation.

[Readsalot]

Since I'm more a fantasy/sci-fi than a horror fan, my favourites are Firestarter and Eyes of the Dragon. However, The Stand is a good read as well and King's The Dark Tower series is simply brilliant - a true masterpiece. Best of all, Stephen King is in South Africa at the moment as they are filming The Dark Tower movie here, with stars like Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey and Katheryn Winnick.

Edited May 22, 2016 by Readsalot

[Harryn]

I read an author new to me last weekend, and enjoyed it enough to get the next book in the series.

 

The author is Mick Herron and the first book I read was "Slow Horses".

 

Slough house is where MI5 send their misfits and screw-ups to be bored by mindless tasks in the hope that they would rather quit the service, thus saving Her Majesty's Government having to boot them out and running the risk of an employment tribunal.

 

It is neither a house nor is it in Slough. It consists of 4 threadbare floors sandwiched between a grimy Chinese restaurant and a convenience store in a very unfashionable part of Finsbury, London. It is named as the inhabitants who have been dismissed as "the Slow Horses" by the rest of MI5, who all operate out of glitzy high tech offices overlooking Regent's park.

 

They are tormented by their fat, farting, dismissive, rude, slob of a boss Jackson Lamb, who lives in semi darkness on the top floor and who hands out the punishment of tedium with undisguised relish. Lamb has unfettered control over their lives and seeks to make it as uncomfortable as possible. He is quite possibly the worst boss I have encountered and the only thing that the other inhabitants have in common is their hatred of him.

 

Once he was a respected and feared operative who ran assets behind the iron curtain playing by "Moscow rules" i.e. watch your back. But now he is an anachronism in the modern world of high tech spying where everyone else is playing by "London rules" i.e. cover your arse. Most that knew him are out of the service, and those who didn't, underestimate him at their peril.

 

Of course a MI5 operation goes wrong and Lamb and his slow horses are set up by the suits to take the blame. But Lamb knows where the "bodies are buried" and bullies, blackmails and cheats his way through the bureaucracy as his motley bunch take on the baddies as well as their illustrious colleagues.

 

It is funny, clever, suspenseful and Lamb is the best drawn spy master since George Smiley. I read it compulsively in two sittings and am reading the next one this weekend.

Thanks, gonna give it a shot!

[Harryn]

I read I am Pilgrim in December. .really enjoyed it.. the follow up "Year of the Locust" is out soon.

I loved "I am Pilgrim", so can't wait for this!

[Gen]

I loved "I am Pilgrim", so can't wait for this!

It's available on amazon.. sadly I don't have a kindle only Google playbooks and only on Google playbooks next year, so I'll have to wait for the paperback to come out. .

[SlowManiac]

Gee I didn't love 'I am Pilgrim' at all. 

 

Just been on a 'book of the movie' spree - The Martian and now reading The Revenant. Both great!

[Tumbleweed]

This was a market find from a while ago. Quick, easy read about a young white trashy couple. Enjoyed it, even if the characters seemed a bit more intelligent that perhaps Hawke wanted them to be.

 

 

[Tumbleweed]

You know those books you've always meant to read but just never did? This is one I got at the market the other day.

 

Fascinating read!

 

 

Edited June 3, 2016 by Tumbleweed

[MTBeer]

reading this at the moment. My first experience of Swedish crime. So far so good.

 

[Gen]

reading this at the moment. My first experience of Swedish crime. So far so good.

 

That looks interesting

[MTBeer]

That looks interesting

Very good so far. I have heard a lot about Swedish crime writers and this one has not disappointed. Another one is Stieg Larson of the 'Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo"

[Gen]

Very good so far. I have heard a lot about Swedish crime writers and this one has not disappointed. Another one is Stieg Larson of the 'Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo"

And also a dragon tattoo [emoji6]

 

Yip.. I read Stieg Larson's Millennium trilogy, thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

So will be keen to read this one

Edited June 3, 2016 by Gen

[Tumbleweed]

Very good so far. I have heard a lot about Swedish crime writers and this one has not disappointed. Another one is Stieg Larson of the 'Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo"

 

Dragon Tattoo?

[MTBeer]

Dragon/Butterfly same same