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Watch my back by Geoff Thompson.

 

... Okay ... turn around.

Peter F Hamilton -

Fallen Dragon.

 

That's one of my favourite quotes of all time

 

Good book. Not his best, but pretty good none-the-less
Would definitely recommend his other works.

 

Was it DA that came up with that?

I first saw it in a Dilbert strip.

 

It's certainly in DA's books - which (I think) predates Dilbert)

 

Which would you recommend as a starter to Peter Hamilton? I can't remember which one I started reading of his but I struggled with it and haven't gone back.

 

Pandora's Star for the commonwealth saga (space opera), or Mindstar Rising for the Greg Mandel detective series...

 

Still reading Lee child's Jack Reacher books, I only have 2 books left in the series before i catch up.

 

Yeah, the Jack Reacher series is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine too...

Someone feel like reading a Sci-Fi noir novel that's also a mystery, a story about redemption and a love story to Japan, read End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Highly recommended.

Read it after listening to "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" by Smashing Pumpkins. If this book was a film, that would be the soundtrack to its trailer.

 

Just finished Aussie Grit. Good read, and a good insight into why Webbo did things his way.

Next up - no idea, really. I am tempted to pick up The Martian.

 

Do it!

 

I just finished the first book in the series and yes, it's fun.

Now reading Trigger Mortis, the latest James Bond by Anthony Horowitz.

 

Oddly enough, currently reading something with a distinctly British bent.

The day we almost bombed Moscow is about the Allied intervention in Russia in 1918.

 

The call of the white, white fang by Jack London

 

The Night's Dawn trilogy (starts with The Reality Dysfunction) was my intro to him, but it could be intimidating. Fallen Dragon is probably his most manageable as it's a single book, but the books in series surpass it. The Commonwealth Saga is his most expansive as it leads into the Void trilogy and into what he's currently writing, but it's quite easy to get into from the word go.

I also recommend Great North Road, blends his aforementioned space opera with some mystery/thriller/crime which he originally started out with in the Greg Mandel books.

Not really an answer, but the standalone books FD and GNR are likely your best bets for manageability.

He is my favourite author, I'd rate all his books as at least 'pretty darn good'.

 

Finished Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, and it was very good. Had to concentrate a bit a some points, especially at the start when I was getting used to the world and politics of it all but loved the story and the setting.

All I've got left of his to read now is the two Nursery Crime books.

I've now started on Shift by Hugh Howey - 2nd in his Silo trilogy.

Was slow going at the start but as the characters grow I'm starting to get hooked. About 18 chapters in and enjoy the two stories that are developing - they alternate chapters - which can be annoying as I prefer one story to the other at the moment but I imagine they will either shadow each other or join up at some point.

 

Finished Trigger Mortis, really enjoyed an old fashioned Bond story.

Now already in the last Chapter of Agatha Christie's first Poirot story, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Next up is volume three of the collected works of Arthur Machen, The Terror & Other Tales: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 3 (Call of Cthulhu Fiction).

 

Got Follow You Home by Mark Edwards through the Kindle Lending Library, meant to be half decent so hopefully I'll enjoy it.

 

Currently reading Fatherland by Robert Harris

up next - Figure Of Hate (A Crowner John Mystery) by Bernard Knight

then - When You Dead, You Dead - Guy Martin