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Post Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:56 am

Sandyfromvancouver wrote: Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Wow.


Really enjoyed the book when I read it. Was looking forward to the film version, but I'm told it's no good, so can't decide whether to bother seeing it. The old, old story...
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Post Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:56 am

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Sandyfromvancouver wrote:Kennedy's Brain, by Henning Mankell. Superb.


A while ago I went through a Mankell phase - highly addictive. There is a Swedish made Wallander series which for some reason they never show here (UK) but it seems a new project will have Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. I'm looking forward to that one!
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a84207/b ... ctive.html


It's an excellent series and I can imagine Branagh playing Wallander! If you like Swedish crime fiction, try The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. It's been very hyped, but is an outstanding (if slightly long) read. Larsson was a journalist and anti-fascist campaigner who died a couple of years back. Just before he died he went into a publisher's and gave them the manuscripts he'd been working on on the quiet. There are two more books in the trilogy, although they're not yet available in the UK.
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Post Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:05 am

Shaz wrote:The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Many thanks, Shaz. Sounds perfect for the holidays. :)
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Post Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:16 pm

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Shaz wrote:The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Many thanks, Shaz. Sounds perfect for the holidays. :)


Hope you enjoy it, Christine -- I can't wait for the second one!

I'm just about to start reading the autobiography of Ian Roberts, the gay Aussie rugby league international.
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Post Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:35 am

The Guards by Ken Bruen.

Thanks to those who recommended it - I liked it very much.

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Post Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:42 pm

philipchevron wrote:The Guards by Ken Bruen.

Thanks to those who recommended it - I liked it very much.

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Fabulous book and series! I'd read Ken Bruen's shopping list. :lol: His South London series is also worth reading, but is rather more off-the-wall!

I'm reading Declan Hughes's new book, THE DYING BREED, which is the third in his Dublin private investigator series. In some ways it feels derivative of the PI tradition, but he gives it a distinctive Irish spin.
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Plus: Everybody's Normal - Until You Get To Know Them, and;
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Post Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:55 am

Just finished Max Brooks' "World War Z - An Oral history of the Zombie War". Really enjoyed it.
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Eckhard wrote:Just finished Max Brooks' "World War Z - An Oral history of the Zombie War". Really enjoyed it.

Oh, I've got that, but I haven't read it yet.
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Post Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:35 pm

Misery-Stephen King

My second Stephen King. I may need to read more from him. The Shining was also good, but if Misery is a better representative of the man's talent, then further investigation is required.
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Post Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:54 pm

Yeah, Stephen King maybe doesn't get the respect he deserves because he's a genre writer. I had a student once who made it to university largely on the strength of what she learned from reading his books.
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LittleCupcakes wrote:Misery-Stephen King

My second Stephen King. I may need to read more from him. The Shining was also good, but if Misery is a better representative of the man's talent, then further investigation is required.


His early stuff is best. I read everything up to a few years ago then quit. Most King fans consider The Stand as his all time classic.
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Post Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:03 pm

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Post Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:12 am

Finally finished Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia. Just started Song Catchers by Mickey Hart. Great pictures and really enjoying this history of music and Mickey's passion for preservation of the world's music.
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Post Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:40 pm

Gypsy by Gypsy Rose Lee
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