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Fucking hell, The Rings of Power too 😆

Dubman

Paper Cuts - How I destroyed the British music press and other misadventures… by a former NME writer, Ted Kessler
Bobby Gillespie’s memoir
The Border - A Journey Around RussIa… a travel writer’s experiences travelling through countries bordering Russia…Russia has been engaged in its nasty imperialism for centuries as you’ll learn here

      Just finished Heat 2. Bloody brilliant

      Stephen King - End of Watch

      I’ve been reading King for 30 years. A lot of great stories in that time. This however is comfortably in his worst 3 novels. Absolutely rotten, a preposterous storyline with very annoying characters.

      I’ve got a George Orwell book lined up next - The Road to Wigan Pier - which I read many years ago and was quite good I think

      That’s The Wolf done. Enjoyed it and bought The Spider. 8 battle lines / 10 - cheers for the recommendation. 👍🏻

      Iain M. Banks - Matter. The 8th book in The Culture-series, and my least favorite so far. 600 pages, and quite little happened in it. Still in the top class in sci fi, so only not so good if you compare it to other Banks’ books, and not other scifi.

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        Homegrove All about the ideas that one, ideas over story. Still boss though.

          Almost finished Heat 2 and really enjoying it. They way its written you can just picture the scenes/lighting that Mann would use.

            7 days later

            Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail. Woah. That was pretty amazing. 600 pages, of which I did half today. Now my arse hurts from sitting down reading it.

            One more Culture-book left. But before that some horror again, Gus Moreno - This Thing Between Us.

              I’m about 80% of the way through Irvine Welsh The Long Knives his latest release which is a follow up to Crime.

              It’s alright but definitely not a classic 🫤

              Dubman The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

                  C_J
                  Cheers bud. I’ll add to the list.
                  Has anyone read..Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by
                  Gabrielle Zevin

                    Here’s one to get your teeth into chaps, takes 3000 pages to get going mind

                    LT42 Not the same without Al Pacino shouting improvised lines

                      Homegrove Gus Moreno - This Thing Between Us

                      That was really disturbing. An easy read though, recommended for horror-folks.

                        6 days later

                        With The Hydrogen Sonata just finished the whole Culture-series is now done by me. Second best sci-fi series ever done after Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos. Next project starting William Gibson from the start with Neuromancer. My wife bought it for me for Christmas after being shocked I’ve not read him. Will again read other stuff between his books like I did with Banks. I find it best to vary stuff.

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                          Paul Tremblay - The Cabin at the End of the World.

                          If the last two pages had ended differently this would have been a 5/5 book. As it is I thought it was pretty fucking great. M. Night Shyamalan has filmed it, and it’s out in March. If he follows the book closely it might be a great horror film.