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The Secret Agent was WEIRD. That bit at the end when he's being chased by the relentless old man...I think I should have taken more from that than I did.
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2smiggy 13 Jan 21:17
i will try The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , and also fast company. i will also get murder machine, about the gambino mob family ******************************************** fella's got taste ;-) |
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Everybody mentions Moby Dick it has to be said.
I like Wind, Sand and Stars by Exupery and The Alchemist by Paulo C |
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garlicbread 13 Jan 21:38
^ Sounds like every one of the Harry Potter books. Utter tripe. *********************************************************** I'd have stopped reading after the first one. |
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I read a book once. Blue, it was.
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Another vote for Mailer's Executioner's Song here...the story of murderer Gary Gilmore.
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Big Charlie 13 Jan 22:48
I read a book once. Blue, it was. The script of the Derek Jarman film perhaps........... |
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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon
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Some authors of crime related thrilers you may want to look at (from a quick scan of my bookshelves):
Jake Arnott Barry Eisler Simon Kernick Christopher Brookmyre Stephen Booth James Ellroy Edward Bunker Anthony Frewin Karin Fossum John Harvey Jeff Abbott Richard Montanari Cody McFadyen George Pelecanos Karin Slaughter Nick Stone Chris Mooney PJ Tracy Simon Beckett Mo Hayder Stuart MacBride |
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the top 2 at the moment are
jack reacher/childs harry bosch/connelly about 15 books from each the top before was ohn grisham, although he was more court orientated |
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orioles 13 Jan 21:43
Try Proust, Sparky, particularly A la recherche du temps perdu . It makes Thackeray seem like a snappy wee piece. It is great literature. But if you can get through all 7 volumes, you're a better man than me. Moby Dick a bit turgid & repetitive , imo. Ditto -Don Quxiote. For someone who has gotten out of the habit of reading - as I have, myself. Perhaps something by Graham Greene or George Orwell would be a better bet to start off. If ,like me, you've become lazy and too used to the internet. The heavyweight classics will only put you off, imo. |
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executioners song - norman mailer awesome work
anything by james lee burke most of michael connolly dennis lehane well worth checking out, especially mystic river and the given day george pelecanos series of novels set in washington dc, brilliant walter mosley seldom fails , his easy rawlins books in particular elmore leonard has a huge body of work mostly very enjoyable and lots have been made into films ie get shorty , rum punch (jackie brown) etc charles willeford another hard boiled crime weriter i like lawrence block another top writer with many good (tongue in cheek) crime books daniel woodrell another fabulous writer , woe to live on , tomato red , winters bone all great reads donald e westlake/ richard stark (same guy) has lots of good books again loads made into film james sallis another well worth reading i could go on and on but ill finish with my favourite - james ellroy what a writer , start with his early works and read them all . see how his style evolves as he matures as a writer . i cant wait to get my hands on his latest work which is just ou - bloods a river. read them all - the black dahlia , l.a confidential , suicide hill , the cold six thousand everyone a classic ! hope you read some from this list. enjoy |
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John Grisham, start with The Firm.
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Homicide - A Year On the Killing Streets by David Simon. the book The Wire came out of.
btw, those Stieg Larsson books are utter sh!t. |
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rebecca is a classic or jamaica inn
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reading 'Under the dome' by stephen king
basically a dome covers a town like in simpson's movie I reckon i'll be finished by March. Its long |
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An unusual crime thriller which I loved but which no-one else I come across seems to have read is Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.It features a 'detective' who has Tourettes Syndrome and is orignal, moving and extremely funny.
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viva el presidente! 14 Jan 01:47
btw, those Stieg Larsson books are utter sh!t. ***************************************** Might of told me that before I bought them :-( Mind you - wadda you know. |
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the finster 14 Jan 00:56
elmore leonard has a huge body of work **************************************** Is that a posh way of saying he's written a lot of books? |
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out of print (I think) Tressell - "Ragged trousered philanthropists" is a great read
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i go by author rather than book.
in order of preference 1. Ken Follet 2. Harlan Coben 3. Lee Childs 4. Michael Connelly 5. Stephen Leather |
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thelawman 14 Jan 20:45
i go by author rather than book. in order of preference 1. Ken Follet 2. Harlan Coben 3. Lee Childs 4. Michael Connelly 5. Stephen Leather *************************************************************************** Sheesh, mate, if I were you I would start going by book instead. |
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why whats wrong with them
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