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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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        4 days later

        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.

        JonQPublik I’ll have to re-read Shades of Grey before August

        Just seen that my pre-order had been cancelled. Not sure why. Re-ordered. Release date: 6 July 2023.

            Amps yeah, I saw its release date changed as well. I’ve still got plenty to read until then.

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                Just finished the wolf, @JonQPublik & @Wally. Exhilarating final battle chapter but the deus ex machina lightning bolt felt like a pure cop out. Epilogue was great though.

                  rhouses Can’t say anything about the lightning bolt. The Spider is equally brutal and satisfying. I’m about ⅔ in The Cuckoo, (the finale).

                      After loading up my Kindle for my trip. I then had the biggest Reg I’ve had in a long while. Somehow I left it on the plane flying from the UK to Dubai. Hopefully it will get handed into lost property.. I’m absolutely Fewmin.

                        Dubman
                        FFS Dubbers!

                        Backed up to t’cloud though so you could read off another device if you’ve taken one.

                        Thinking more of a Gary as reading off the phone would be a massive plum-ache!

                            5 days later

                            Anyone read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow? I’m a fifth way through and it’s a great read so far…. About a couple of games programmers (male and female) and their relationship…. It won a number of awards (Amazon book of the year, Goodreads fiction prize 2022) - must have done so for a reason I guess! One of those books I look forward to reading in bed before sleep….

                            • C_J replied to this.

                              Sounds like a decent rec though Julie

                              I just started Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak and just finished Origin by Dan Brown.

                              14 days later

                              I reread Dan Simmons’ The Terror. It’s a fictionalized version of the Franklin Expedition of the 1800s where the English tried to find the North West Passage and everyone died. Almost 800 pages of cold, starvation, scurvy and a mythic inuit monster killing people. And slow. Yet I come back to it every few years. AMC made a TV-version of it, that’s on Prime (at least in Finland). It’s pretty good, and has a terrific cast with Jared Harris in the lead role.