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01 Run! - Dean Karnazes
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Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Ranulph Fiennes
Victims - Alex Delaware (both started in 2013, now finished) |
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Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Ranulph Fiennes Victims - Jonathan Kellerman (both started in 2013, now finished) |
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any chance of a review this year, Joci, or at least a nod to the good/bad ones?
a list serves little purpose imo. |
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Lists are great in their own right, and don't necessarily have to serve a purpose.
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But if inspired, I'll add a comment now and again.
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don't know if posters who read this thread would read such literature but having just read 2 of kate Morton's books, I'd say, and believe me I've read a lot of classic stuff over the years, that they definitely fall into the 'best ever' catergory.
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ie house of riverton, and the secret garden.
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http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nook-s-best-books-2013-each-book-99p-1781065
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the siege by simon kernick...read loads of his and all really good
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Me too, The Siege was on my 2013 list.
If you like Kernick, other authors you might want to look out for are: Tom Cain Tom Wood Duncan Falconer James Barrington Jeff Abbott Matt Hilton Anthony Frewin |
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01 Run! - Dean Karnazes
02 Embedded - Dan Abnett Run! by Dean Karnazes was enjoyable short stories about his endurance running escapades. However, there's the feeling that this (his second) book was brought out to cash in on the success of his first best selling book Ultramarathon Man. There we're a few paragraphs of 'filler' in this one, but not too much to be disappointing. In terms of running books I think I'd recommend more the books by Christopher MacDougall (Born To Run), Scott Jurek (Eat and Run) and Adharanand Finn (Running With the Kenyans). |
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Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
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Everything ravaged, everything burned - by Wells Tower. Short stories bursting with fresh dialogue (American) humour and insight. Given as a Christmas present so I had no pre-conceptions.
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Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Paul Weller, The Changing Man - Paolo Hewitt Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s - Dave Haslam |
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01 Run! - Dean Karnazes
02 Embedded - Dan Abnett 03 Parasite - Mira Grant |
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Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Paul Weller, The Changing Man - Paolo Hewitt Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s - Dave Haslam Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials - Horace Panter |
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1 The World of Nagaraj - R K Narayan
2 Gustav Mahler - Michael Kennedy |
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1 The World of Nagaraj - R K Narayan
2 Gustav Mahler - Michael Kennedy 3 It Can Be Done - Kevin Blake |
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Phantom Jo Nesbo
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01 Run! - Dean Karnazes
02 Embedded - Dan Abnett 03 Parasite - Mira Grant 04 Shadow's Edge - Brent Weeks |
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1.Bess of Hardwick. (Biography) Mary Lovell
2.The Dead of Summer. Mari Jungstedt. |
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my kindle short story is free over next 3 days (from tomorrow) if anyone enjoys hg well's ish romantic fantasy - called The Iceberg, not the Spamberg!
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Ex-Wives
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Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Paul Weller, The Changing Man - Paolo Hewitt Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s - Dave Haslam Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials - Horace Panter The Brian Epstein Story - Debbie Geller |
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1 The World of Nagaraj - R K Narayan
2 Gustav Mahler - Michael Kennedy 3 It Can Be Done - Kevin Blake 4 Come To Grief - Dick Francis |
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our man in hibernia - charlie connelly (some proper lol moments)
starter for ten - david nicholls (meh) |
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Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Ranulph Fiennes
Victims - Jonathan Kellerman The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenger |
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Ordered Atmospheric Disturbanceson the back of reading this superb short story:
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/03/24/080324fi_fiction_galchen?currentPage=all Not at all. |
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1 The World of Nagaraj - R K Narayan
2 Gustav Mahler - Michael Kennedy 3 It Can Be Done - Kevin Blake 4 Come To Grief - Dick Francis 5 Plays, Poems and Prose - John Millington Synge |
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1. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Totally expected to love this book as it was highly recommended and I loved the only other book of his I had read... Complicity. However I was disappointed, it was dark and it was weird, but it just didnt grab me, didnt really get my curiosity going at all. 2. Crime by Irvine Welsh OK, more of a crime thriller than anything, unearthing a paedo gang in southern USA. Not without its moments, but my least favourite of the five Welsh books I have read. Will get Porno soon, sequel to trainspotting, just as soon as I build up the courage to ask the matronly spinster type at the library to order it specially for me, no doubt n a brown paper bag. Got two more out today... Psmith, Journalist by Wodehouse and twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Verne, hope to finish them both within a month. |
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The Fear Index by Robert Harris - far from his best
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Ordered Atmospheric Disturbanceson the back of reading this superb short story:
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/03/24/080324fi_fiction_galchen?currentPage=all Well, I just read the novel and was disappointed. Obviously a v clever writer (with a 2nd novel coming) but to me her writig just seems to disappear up its own tunnel in longer form. |
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1 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
2 Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd 3 Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 4 Ecstasy Irvine Welsh 5 A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 6 Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals Mike Vockins |
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I do like William Boyd and if anyone can post a link to one of his short stories, concerning an aged female Parisian snob writing to a younger comnpanion, I would recommend reading this very touching story.
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Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Paul Weller, The Changing Man - Paolo Hewitt Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s - Dave Haslam Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials - Horace Panter The Brian Epstein Story - Debbie Geller Stoned - Andrew Loog Oldham |
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3. Psmith, Journalist by PG Wodehouse.
I liked it, only 154pp, he has a way with words that guy. |
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1 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
2 Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd 3 Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 4 Ecstasy Irvine Welsh 5 A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 6 Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals Mike Vockins 7 Never Google Heartbreak Emma Garcia |
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Started reading 'Player of Games' by Ian Banks.
After about half an hour I still couldn't make head or tails of it so threw it across the room. Load of pretentious twaddle. |
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1 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
2 Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd 3 Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 4 Ecstasy Irvine Welsh 5 A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 6 Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals Mike Vockins 7 Never Google Heartbreak Emma Garcia 8 Skinheads John King 9 Common Sense Rules: What You Really Need To Know About Business Deborah Meaden |