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I just finished 'We Solve Murders', Richard Osman's latest and a new series following his success with The Thursday Murder Club, which I enjoyed. I enjoyed WSM too as I like Osman's light-hearted writing style.
 
Pipe & Slippers said:
Just finished Blood Meridian. What a tale of violence and humanity lost (or never there in the first place)
Felt like it was American Psycho set in the old west, with lashings of On The Road
Utterly and irredeemably grim
Would not read again - YMMV!
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McCarthy can hit harder than anyone. Should follow that with something light and fun - The Road.
 
House of Open Wounds - Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Very good fantasy set around a military field hospital staffed by magical misfits - makes a change from the usual hero battles villain/God/Demon who wants to destroy the world plot.
 
Mint8 said:
House of Open Wounds - Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Very good fantasy set around a military field hospital staffed by magical misfits - makes a change from the usual hero battles villain/God/Demon who wants to destroy the world plot.
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By a curious coincidence, I'm reading a book about a bunch of magical misfits fighting in a alt version of WW1. Called The Ethereal Squadron. Interesting so far but I've only just started.
 
Just finished Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde.

The 2nd in the series to Shades Of Grey.
It's sci fi/dystopia following the 'Something That Happened'
People are classified according to the colour hue they can see so Blues see grass as blue, Yellows see it as Yellow and Greens see it as green unless it's artificial colour. Everyone follows the rules as set out by Munsell and at age 20 they do their Ishihara test to determine where in society they place.

The story follows Eddie (Red) and Jane (a Grey, the lowest class that are tolerated by the other colours but basically indentured slaves) team up to do something about the Colourtocracy.

The series is mostly light hearted but has some dark undertones in places. Red Side Story answered quite a few questions I had from the first book.
 
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I've got about 150 pages left of the last book. Wonderful series and I started enjoying more once I accepted the flaws.

What series are you planning to read once you've finished this one?
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Possibly the Mortal Engines series though I also want to reread the Witcher books too.

Anyhow, back to WOT, Book 11 certainly picks up the pace - yes another 90 page (!) prologue but a fair bit happened already.
 
Finally got around to reading Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - only 30 odd years since it was published, and £1.50 from a charity shop
I found it an engaging and entertaining read, and I like dollops of historical research of things I know nothing about
Lots of readers find it very slow going to start with but I didn’t find it so
The only criticism, and it’s a big one, is the credibility of the ending, which I felt didn’t fit with the rest of the book at all
I understand why the author may have done this from a general story telling perspective, but for me it left a sour taste
Not sure I’d recommend
 
Struggling through The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett. The first 2 books were very good, but 3rd and 4th are dragged out and frankly boring in place. Long chapters giving backstories to small characters does not build the world any clearer. I would not have started this one if I knew there was a 5th book, but want to get to the conclusion.
 
Having a re-read of Rendezvous with Rama, been thirty years since I last read it and with Denis Villeneuve looking to make a movie from it, thought I refresh my memory.
I might end up going down the Rama rabbit hole, iirc, the rest of the books were much better. Arthur C. Clarke was great with ideas but not good with characterisation, where Gentry Lee helped.
 
I'm just finishing up Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey. The order in which the story has been told thus far has really worked. Book 2 being the run into and then running alongside Book 1, but from a wider angle. I've really enjoyed it. As other reviews have said, you really feel the immersion.
 
Pipe & Slippers said:
Just finished Blood Meridian. What a tale of violence and humanity lost (or never there in the first place)
Felt like it was American Psycho set in the old west, with lashings of On The Road
Utterly and irredeemably grim
Would not read again - YMMV!
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The Road is a good read. I think it's a story about love and hope, but many people think it's horrible.

Child Of God is good, but pretty grim.

The Border Triligy is OK. First and second books are great, the third isn't as good.

I couldn't finish Suttree. It just didn't grab me.
 
About 250 pages to go in WOT Book 11 - Knife Of Dreams. The action has picked up a bit after the tedious drag of 8, 9 and 10, though Jordan still tended to throw in the odd chapter for obscure characters and proceed to describe what they are wearing in tedious paragraph after paragraph. And by god is it me, or did this guy have a real fetish for corporal punishment? This book in particular we have numerous instances where Aes Sedai novices are getting slippered, strapped or threatened with the birch. Including Egwene, I meant the poor Mistress Of Novices can't have much time for anything else (and aching arms) the number of times she is being told to report to "the study" for correction.
 
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Just finished Mercy Of God's by James SA Corey - 6/10

Completely different from the Expanse books. It starts out great, but is a bit overly long, not helped by the one dimensional characters.
 
Just finished Worth Dying For - Reacher #15. I think I've seen it ranked at the top end of 'Best Reacher book' lists and I think I'd probably agree. Lots of action, a good mystery, well told and a high body count :cry:
 
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