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egb_hibs said:
Mick Herron - of Slow horses. Id normally recoil from anything described as humorous but he writes cracking spy thrillers which are amusing not because they are comedies but because the characters have good patter
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Out of interest @egb_hibs have you read any of his earlier Zoë Boehm books? Know if they're any good?
 
Sancho Panza said:
Out of interest @egb_hibs have you read any of his earlier Zoë Boehm books? Know if they're any good?
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I read Why we Die? when it was a 99p on Amazon.
Memory not great, but I think it was about a robbery of a jewellery?
Not as good as Slow Horses but I prefer spy to detective, so I may be a bit biased.
 
greencol said:
I read Why we Die? when it was a 99p on Amazon.
Memory not great, but I think it was about a robbery of a jewellery?
Not as good as Slow Horses but I prefer spy to detective, so I may be a bit biased.
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Haven't read them but my taste is like yours , which is why I haven't prioritised it
 
Iain banks and Irvine Welsh for me , and when I was a child Roald Dahl books were magical.
Most books I read are non fiction.
I’ve a read a few novel sized extracts from a certain @egb_hibs , and while informative and thought provoking in parts , they do tend to go on a bit and drag you down into doom and despair at times. 😜😂😎
 
1 Mcnamara said:
Iain banks and Irvine Welsh for me , and when I was a child Roald Dahl books were magical.
Most books I read are non fiction.
I’ve a read a few novel sized extracts from a certain @egb_hibs , and while informative and thought provoking in parts , they do tend to go on a bit and drag you down into doom and despair at times. 😜😂😎
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I love Iain Banks but his mainstream fiction really fell in quality after Complicity. I got the impression that he just churned them out as contractual obligation every second year and saved his best stuff for his SF books. They are much more consistent in quality.
 
Sancho Panza said:
I love Iain Banks but his mainstream fiction really fell in quality after Complicity. I got the impression that he just churned them out as contractual obligation every second year and saved his best stuff for his SF books. They are much more consistent in quality.
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I actually tried to read one to get over my sci fi allergy. I got as far as a three legged alien and gave up - I mean how would evolution produce that. :giggle
 
egb_hibs said:
I actually tried to read one to get over my sci fi allergy. I got as far as a three legged alien and gave up - I mean how would evolution produce that. :giggle
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That'll be Consider Phlebas. Not my favourite. In fact I think it was one of the first books he wrote and got published after the success of the Wasp Factory. The Player of Games and Use of Weapons are far better. I agree, though, that his type of SF (space opera) isn't for everyone. It's such a varied genre that there are lots of things you would like. I think I've mentioned A Canticle for Leibowitz and A Case of Conscience as books which deal with theology; The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is a recent one in a similar vein.
I think you would really like JG Ballard with his SF of 5 minutes into the future. He was a big influence on British synth-pop and even has an adjective named after him! What's not to like? Try High Rise or Super-Cannes.
Oh and Joy Division named a song after one of his short story collections. John Gray is also a big fan.
 
Sancho Panza said:
That'll be Consider Phlebas. Not my favourite. In fact I think it was one of the first books he wrote and got published after the success of the Wasp Factory. The Player of Games and Use of Weapons are far better. I agree, though, that his type of SF (space opera) isn't for everyone. It's such a varied genre that there are lots of things you would like. I think I've mentioned A Canticle for Leibowitz and A Case of Conscience as books which deal with theology; The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is a recent one in a similar vein.
I think you would really like JG Ballard with his SF of 5 minutes into the future. He was a big influence on British synth-pop and even has an adjective named after him! What's not to like? Try High Rise or Super-Cannes.
Oh and Joy Division named a song after one of his short story collections. John Gray is also a big fan.
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Is it too much of an old fogey thing to put in a shout for John Wyndham? Think all his stuff is a excellent, not just the filmed ones.
 
Don’t have a fovourite author, as I don’t read much but if someone brought out a book about how the ugly sisters and the Scottish media ruin Scottish football, they would be my favourite 👍😜
 
Weehibbydrew said:
Is it too much of an old fogey thing to put in a shout for John Wyndham? Think all his stuff is a excellent, not just the filmed ones.
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Good shout. I've read several. See also The Death of Grass by John Christopher, On The Beach by Neville Shute and anything by Ray Bradbury. Love all that classic 1950s SF.
 
So many, probably I'll forget to mention a few I shouldn't but Kafka, Beckett, Orwell, McCarthy and Camus are my worthies and I still love Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series and fell for Ursula le Guin in my teens, she as ace
 
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