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Post by willien on Sept 20, 2023 16:24:48 GMT
Currently rereading The Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks. Makes a lot more sense now that human society has to some extent caught up. Waiting for the inspiration is a not quite re-read of Herman Hesse's - Steppenwolf. Not quite because it is a more modern translation. The new translator argues that while german language usage has altered little since the book was written, English usage has so the original english translation sits oddly on our ears. It certainly sat oddly on my 1970's ears.  I don't think I've read that one. I have read Klingsor's Last Summer and Narcissus And Goldmund. Enjoyed both. Will add Steppenwolf to the TBR pile. Not read Klingsor's last summer but enjoyed Narciss and Goldmund.
If you do red Steppenwolf you might want to then try Journey to the East - mixes fantasy and reality a bit and goes more realistically into his use of drugs and ultimate dissatisfaction with them IIRC - I did read it in the early 70s.
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Post by spinno on Sept 20, 2023 17:21:50 GMT
Jeffery Archer Turn A Blind Eye I’m 112 pages in and not liking it one bit but because Archer is such a prolific writer and I have never read anything by him before I think I will see it through. I just counted 43 previous books written by him so maybe it’s just my frame of mind at the minute after all he has sold 320 million books so he is quite good at it. ![]() View AttachmentIan Rankin has written loads of Rabus books.  And photographic books? Or am I confusing him with someone else? |
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Post by willien on Sept 20, 2023 17:30:12 GMT
Ian Rankin has written loads of Rabus books. And photographic books? Or am I confusing him with someone else? Someone else - and I should have typed Rebus.
The Tog is John Rankin Waddell
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Post by spinno on Sept 20, 2023 18:09:55 GMT
And photographic books? Or am I confusing him with someone else? Someone else - and I should have typed Rebus.
The Tog is John Rankin Waddell
Get Jonathan Ross to announce him... |
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Post by don on Sept 20, 2023 19:03:13 GMT
Jeffery Archer Turn A Blind Eye I’m 112 pages in and not liking it one bit but because Archer is such a prolific writer and I have never read anything by him before I think I will see it through. I just counted 43 previous books written by him so maybe it’s just my frame of mind at the minute after all he has sold 320 million books so he is quite good at it. ![]() View AttachmentIan Rankin has written loads of Rabus books. I’ve read several Rabus (Rebus) books I’m another fifty pages in and it’s getting better |
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Post by dorsetmike on Sept 20, 2023 20:01:47 GMT
Ernest K Gann, Fate is the hunter and Island in the sky
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 20, 2023 20:09:35 GMT
Ernest K Gann, Fate is the hunter and Island in the sky I have a copy of Fate is the Hunter - an absorbing book. I also have Song of the Sirens, another of his books. |
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Post by dorsetmike on Sept 20, 2023 21:54:47 GMT
Just did a quick search, 30 books by E K Gann, I've read 5 of them. Not many on Amazon/Kindle, but they do have 2 presumably first editions S/H for ÂŁ168 each, I think I'll pass on those!
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Post by don on Sept 21, 2023 13:35:17 GMT
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Post by don on Sept 21, 2023 13:38:08 GMT
Finished Jeffery Archer Turn A Blind Eye I won’t bother reading any more by him despite his popularity.
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Post by petrochemist on Sept 21, 2023 14:46:37 GMT
One of the carers here just bought me in a copy of Lee Child’s the Killing Floor. I’m on an economy drive so instead of paying for books on Kindle I have been reading Free Kindle books 📚 but you can’t beat a good mainstream bestseller from John Grisham or Lee Child’s . The free kindle books are great but often not worth it at free , I’ve lost many hours reading crap free books before giving up Killing floor was one I finished last week (my copy came from a phone box). Since then I've read Collectors by David Baldacci (not his best in that it took half the book to get going - the subplots started too disjointed. Usually I'm gripped within the first chapter with his books) & then One of the 'Owen Archer' medieval mysteries by Candace Robb which I finished last night. Now onto another Lee Child - 'Hour 61' |
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Post by don on Sept 21, 2023 18:27:50 GMT
Looking at the complete collection of Charles Dickens on my Kindle but it’s 49 pence for 20 novels and 200 short stories does this offer me good value?  |
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Post by dorsetmike on Sept 21, 2023 22:34:32 GMT
Just started re-reading Anne McCaffery, got 34 titles on Kindle, should keep me going for a week or two
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Post by spinno on Sept 21, 2023 23:07:38 GMT
Looking at the complete collection of Charles Dickens on my Kindle but it’s 49 pence for 20 novels and 200 short stories does this offer me good value? View AttachmentWasn't he a Kentish man, or even a man of Kent. 49p is a bargain if you like funny names... |
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Post by davem399 on Sept 22, 2023 9:07:17 GMT
Looking at the complete collection of Charles Dickens on my Kindle but it’s 49 pence for 20 novels and 200 short stories does this offer me good value? View AttachmentWasn't he a Kentish man, or even a man of Kent. 49p is a bargain if you like funny names... Technically, he was neither as he was born in Portsmouth. He did however have a lot of connections with Kent. Near where I used to live in Gravesend is the forge which is said to be the one that inspired the idea of the forge in Great Expectations, and nearby to that is his honeymoon cottage. And a couple of miles from where I live now is Bleak House. Dickens stayed there but it was called Fort House, and renamed as BH many years later. |
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