Recently I’ve been reading Peter May crime books, the Enzo series, stumbled across him by accident, turns out they are pretty good!
What have you read recently?
I’m currently reading a book about anti-gravity lads.
It’s so good I can’t put it down.
TAKE MY WIFE!
Is this how it’s going to be through 2025, Ed?
Top drawer bants delivered with panache?
It is Millsy!
Finished rereading all of Joe Hill’s books. That guy sure has no problems with an unhappy ending, especially in his shorter fiction. The novella Loaded on the collection Strange Weather is particularly cruel. Felt like a book version of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games-movies.
Next year’s plans are to start reading Le Carre. I’m at the absolutely right age now.
A big 2025 awaits for H!
Are you still wading through the Mr Men series Ed?
Am currently reading That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack MC.
Which is nice.
Reread Empire of the Summer Moon about the last stand of the Comanche Indians and Quanah Parker. Incredible story. If they made a movie about this particular tribe it would make Apocalypto look like a Christmas panto for 4 year olds. The savagery is unheard of. For example, having your gut sliced open and hot coals from the fire carefully placed inside just to get the party started.
I went down a rabbit hole on the Comanche, scary bunch and pretty adept with their weaponry. It wasn’t unusual to find a victim of their attacks with around a hundred arrows lodged in them. Sounds pretty run of the mill until you realise all of those arrows would be found in the victim’s head. I don’t think they had psychological testing back then.
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I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre. Tremendous stuff, really looking forward to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy now. The 2011-film is in my all time top 10 list quite easily. Never understood folks complaining it’s hard to follow. I guess they were on their phones while watching it.
Just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff (he wrote The 25th Hour)
Highly recommended
4.99 / 5
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Don Winslow - City on Fire. Stephen King likes this guys writing so much HE went as a customer to one of Winslow’s signings.
This is Irish mobsters in a gang war with Italian mafia in Providence, Rhode Island in the 1980s and was just as awesome as that sounds. Austin Butler will be producing and starring in a film adaptation of this. The way the book is it should be difficult to fuck up making a movie out of it, put I guess it’s always possible.
