Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Patricia

I've been reading them in English, where the titles are
Jar City
Silence of the Grave
Voices
The Draining Lake

And they are very good reads.

oh sheesh, as if i need to add any more titles to my "to read" list...

/goes to add them anyway...

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Patricia

I've been reading them in English, where the titles are
Jar City
Silence of the Grave
Voices
The Draining Lake

And they are very good reads.

Fun to see the different titles. The Draining Lake was called The Man in the Lake in Swedish and Voices is called The Voice of an Angel and Silence of the Grave is called Woman in Green.

Arnaldur Indridason seems to be compared a lot to Wallander but I think he is much better since I do not like the Wallander books at all.

The next book I am going to read is Arctic Chill (The Winter City).

I just finished a re-reading of Pride and Prejudice. The book was mentioned so much in other threads here that I had to re-read it.

[nekokami]

Finished Brisingr. The second half was better than the first. I think my next book will be The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust. (This is also in paper, as it's not yet available as an ebook. And it was also a Christmas gift.)

[lilac_jive]

I'm reading Sari Robins "When Seducing a Spy." I don't know if I like it.

[Patricia]

I'm also rather fond of Swedish detective stories from the 1970s. My absolute favourites are Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall's Martin Beck series, closely followed by K Arne Blom. (Unfortunately, only two of Blom's were translated into English: The Moment of Truth and The Limits of Pain.)

More recently, I have been reading Karin Alvtegen and Karin Fossum with interest. Helene Tursten does a good police procedural. And Ake Edwardson is interesting, but a bit bloody for my taste.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Patricia

I'm also rather fond of Swedish detective stories from the 1970s. My absolute favourites are Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall's Martin Beck series, closely followed by K Arne Blom. (Unfortunately, only two of Blom's were translated into English: The Moment of Truth and The Limits of Pain.)

I really like the Sjöwall/Wahlöö books. K Arne Blom I have missed. If you like Sjöwall/Wahlöö you will probably like Roslund/Hellstrom. The first two books seems to be available in English (The Beast, The Vault/Box 21) and they are good. And the third book was even better.

More recently, I have been reading Karin Alvtegen and Karin Fossum with interest. Helene Tursten does a good police procedural. And Ake Edwardson is interesting, but a bit bloody for my taste.

I read a couple of Åke Edwardson's book but got bored by them. Karin Fossum is really good. The Karin Alvtegen books I have read have really been good but they also have kind of depressing subject matter.

I can also recommend Johan Theorin. I recently read his first book Echoes from the Dead and it was very good. The next book is said to be better.

Two other favorites are Arne Dahl and Håkan Nesser.

[Patricia]

Thanks, Tompe. I will check these out.

[zelda_pinwheel]

i've not read any of the authors you've mentioned here but they made me remember a series of dutch mysteries that i remember liking, although i read them years ago. luckily i found one of my old paperbacks so i could remember the author's name : Janwillem van de Wetering. i read quite a few of the Grijpstra and de Gier mysteries set in amsterdam. i read them in french but they seem to have been translated into english as well, and they're also from the 70's (okay, they're not swedish).

[ErwinOtten]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i've not read any of the authors you've mentioned here but they made me remember a series of dutch mysteries that i remember liking, although i read them years ago. luckily i found one of my old paperbacks so i could remember the author's name : Janwillem van de Wetering. i read quite a few of the Grijpstra and de Gier mysteries set in amsterdam. i read them in french but they seem to have been translated into english as well, and they're also from the 70's (okay, they're not swedish).

If you like Dutch mysteries you can also read the novels by Baantjer. His DeKok - novels are famous in the Netherlands (although here it's De Cock with cee oo cee kay ). Both types of mystery compare to each other as the television crimi's Tatort (de Gier) compares to Derrick (De Kok).

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ErwinOtten

If you like Dutch mysteries you can also read the novels by Baantjer. His DeKok - novels are famous in the Netherlands (although here it's De Cock with cee oo cee kay ). Both types of mystery compare to each other as the television crimi's Tatort (de Gier) compares to Derrick (De Kok).

thanks (i think... my list of books to read is already kilometres long... ) i'm always happy to find a new mystery series to read.

[astra]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Personally, I'd read (or re-read if you've already read it) Cryptonomicon after the Baroque trilogy. It may have been written first, but the timelines in it are after those in the Baroque Trilogy, and some of the events, people and geography are related to them.

Oh, really?
I have read somewhere, that you have to read Cryptonomicon before the trilogy because in Cryptonomicon there are some bits and pieces of info that will ne helpful in the trilogy (sort of not a must but useful)...I am a bit confused now

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by tompe

I really like the Sjöwall/Wahlöö books. K Arne Blom I have missed. If you like Sjöwall/Wahlöö you will probably like Roslund/Hellstrom. The first two books seems to be available in English (The Beast, The Vault/Box 21) and they are good. And the third book was even better.

Have you read any of Henning Mankell's books, Tommy? The BBC have just shown a short series of excellent TV adaptations of his "Wallander" books, with Kenneth Branagh as the title character. It's made me want to read his books now - I see that they are all available in English.

http://www.inspector-wallander.org/

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Have you read any of Henning Mankell's books, Tommy? The BBC have just shown a short series of excellent TV adaptations of his "Wallander" books, with Kenneth Branagh as the title character. It's made me want to read his books now - I see that they are all available in English.

http://www.inspector-wallander.org/

I have read the first two books but I do not like them so much. I have seen the Swedish TV-series and films also. The problem with the books and films are that Wallander always succeed. He has to be the hero. In the second book he goes to Riga and is of course more clever then the local police in spite of not knowing the language. In a film I saw he went to South Africa and was the most competent person. And so on. I really do not understand why these books are so popular.

I have seen the first two films with Branagh and it is very strange watching something filmed in Sweden with Swedish signs and with Swedish names but with British actors. Sometimes I forgot myself and expect to hear Swedish and it took a couple of seconds to realise that I should listen in English. They have also gotten the dialog tempo with the silent parts and the typical Swedish mumbling in films and TV series correctly depicted.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Finished Brisingr. The second half was better than the first. I think my next book will be The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust. (This is also in paper, as it's not yet available as an ebook. And it was also a Christmas gift.)

I bought Brisingr when it first came out in Kindle format, but I couldn't get into it, so it's sitting out there waiting for me to be in the mood to read it.

I just finished reading The Host on my Kindle -- the first book of 2009. I bought it in May, but just started reading it on January 1 after I saw it on several people's "Best of 2008" lists. I can heartily recommend it. My next couple of reads will be paper books that I owe to swapping partners, but I did purchase Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn, 6th in her Thirteen Houses series, for the Kindle. I'll want to start reading it soon.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Personally, I'd read (or re-read if you've already read it) Cryptonomicon after the Baroque trilogy. It may have been written first, but the timelines in it are after those in the Baroque Trilogy, and some of the events, people and geography are related to them.

Originally Posted by astra

Oh, really?
I have read somewhere, that you have to read Cryptonomicon before the trilogy because in Cryptonomicon there are some bits and pieces of info that will ne helpful in the trilogy (sort of not a must but useful)...I am a bit confused now

Hmmmm.... I'm struggling with Cryptonomicon right now. I'm enjoying it -- but am not finding myself captivated. And therefore, it's easy to put it down and pick up another book. I really would like to finish it soon, just to finish it, if you get what I mean.