What have you read recently?

John Connolly’s Parker-series is awesome. Read the latest in full yesterday. Started at 2 PM and with some breaks ended at 10 PM. 400 pages or so.

He’s Irish, but the books are based in the US. They’re PI-books with a supernatural twist. Quite violent, and Connolly writes really beautiful prose. Lee Childs he isn’t. My wife loves the Jack Reacher books, and I read the first one, but found it not to my tastes.

The Parker-series starts with Every Dead Thing, and if you like it there are about twenty more.

Homegrove cheers H!

Along_the_Wire Kevin Sampson’s worth a punt. Powder’s probably my favourite of his - very Niven-esque, but they’re all readworthy.

Finished up the Stephen Fry books on the Greeks - Mythos, Heroes, and Troy (although I think there’s one more in the works about the Odyssey) and now reading “Caligula” by Simon Turney. After that, another book by Turney - “Commodus”.

Too hot to read.

anyone got any good modern day fiction recommendations for the holidays?

Dubmick

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-21st-century-so-far.html

Probably only read about 20% of these, still it’s a good list of recommendations. Personally, I loved The Corrections and Platform.

bosstrabs Thanks for that will check it out. Love all Franzan’s books, would consider re-reading. Good oul platform. Great bit of filth in his books lol.

bosstrabs Probably only read about 20% of these

Palestine.

Mad_Cyril Interesting Houellebecq fact:

While his brother Danny kept the English spelling of the name, Michael adopted a French spelling to ensure literary success.

bosstrabs
Also, Micky has actually written more books than Danny has scored goals

‘Blood Gun Money’ by Ioan Grillo, about how America supplies the weaponry and fuels the drug wars. Holy shit!

LT42 ‘Blood Gun Money’ by Ioan Grillo, about how America supplies the weaponry and fuels the drug wars. Holy shit!

Any cop?

Sounds mustard!

Kells77 How heavy going is this? I’m still tempted.

Smallman1 brilliant book imo, Grillo has been deep in Mexico since around 2003, fantastic journalist

Tarantino wrote a novelisation for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hundred pages in and it’s quite decent. No surprises that the dialogue is the best part. Otherwise it reads a bit like a pulp novel, which is also pretty fitting.