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Old 11-07-2020, 04:28 PM   #29356
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I'm reading No Game For A Dame. It is very good.
I'm on the third one of that series myself!
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Old 11-08-2020, 03:46 AM   #29357
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Next up: A random pick from the pile: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part of a Delphi Classics set, so cost me £0.02 back in 2015.
Only 3/5 for me. It's written as a kind of mystery story, with the solution revealed only at the end. But since the main plot point is now well known to all, there's zero tension in the earlier part of the story, so it no longer works.

Next up: Shadow's Blade by David B. Cole. Part of a Baen bundle bought back in 2016. It's the third in a series, but they look stand-alone, and I'm certainly not going to buy the first two anytime in the next ten years unless I really like this one, so I might as well read it now.
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Old 11-08-2020, 09:41 AM   #29358
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I think I have read this before, as all the stories seemed familiar, even the ones from unfamiliar authors. I can't say I agreed with many of his choices. 3/5

Next up: A random pick from the pile: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part of a Delphi Classics set, so cost me £0.02 back in 2015.
I bought that one too for cheap around the same time. Read a couple of months ago. Not quite what I expected. Enjoy.

I'm still reading Mischief by Ed McBain.
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Old 11-09-2020, 12:51 AM   #29359
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Next up: A random pick from the pile: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part of a Delphi Classics set, so cost me £0.02 back in 2015.
I remember getting that for free alongside a modern retelling, Hyde, from the other guy’s perspective. As I recall, it was meh and the original looked antiquated by comparison.
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Old 11-09-2020, 04:32 AM   #29360
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1.5/5 for The Thursday Murder Club
This book started off very bright and promising. It was funny, and witty and seemed to promise a genuine partnership between the Murder Club and the two police officers. Then around the 2/3 mark, it tanked spectacularly.

I have a strong personal preference for likeable leads, I need to be able to support the chief protagonist to really enjoy a book. Elizabeth, the lead in this story was utterly UNlikable - smug, written as nearly omniscient, super competent and as the story went on ever more condescending and dismissive of the police officers she used as tools. The partnership of the early part of the book was forgotten as the 80s team donned their superhero capes and solved everything. This story fizzled into yet another 'all-knowing amateur(s) shames PCs Plod". I scored it as low as I did because of the massive disappointment that a book which started off promising ended up putrid.

Time to try Ben Schott's Leap of Faith now and see it matches the quality of Jeeves and the King of Clubs. I really hope so
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Old 11-09-2020, 06:42 AM   #29361
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"a terrifying number of escaped engagements – twenty-two near-Mrs at the last official count " - so far Jeeves and the Leap of Faith is another excellent homage to PGW, and has managed to stump Kobo's much-improved dictionary with "cleeked". The real Oxford online came to my aid, sadly I can't find a way to test whether the onboard dictionary would recognize the infinitive.
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Old 11-10-2020, 01:42 AM   #29362
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"a terrifying number of escaped engagements – twenty-two near-Mrs at the last official count " - so far Jeeves and the Leap of Faith is another excellent homage to PGW, and has managed to stump Kobo's much-improved dictionary with "cleeked". The real Oxford online came to my aid, sadly I can't find a way to test whether the onboard dictionary would recognize the infinitive.
Use the search. You change the context to the dictionary and search for the word.
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Old 11-10-2020, 01:58 AM   #29363
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Use the search. You change the context to the dictionary and search for the word.
Excellent tip, thanks! On this occasion it served to confirm that "cleek" is not in the onboard dictionary.
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One reason I like Schott's PGW homages is that they are explicitly that. His oft-stated intent is to get readers who haven't to try the real thing. Along the way, he comes up with lines that are "almost but not quite" Plummy - but still amusing, like this one:
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1.5/5 for The Thursday Murder Club
This book started off very bright and promising. It was funny, and witty and seemed to promise a genuine partnership between the Murder Club and the two police officers. Then around the 2/3 mark, it tanked spectacularly.

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Time to try Ben Schott's Leap of Faith now and see it matches the quality of Jeeves and the King of Clubs. I really hope so
Though folks rave about this one, I bailed on it planning on asking for my Audible credit to be returned.
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Though folks rave about this one, I bailed on it planning on asking for my Audible credit to be returned.
You bailed on Thursday Murder Club, or Leap of Faith? If the former, I should have too.
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You bailed on Thursday Murder Club, or Leap of Faith? If the former, I should have too.
Thursday Murder Club - rave reviews leave me wondering "Did we read the same book?"
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Next up: Shadow's Blade by David B. Cole. Part of a Baen bundle bought back in 2016. It's the third in a series, but they look stand-alone, and I'm certainly not going to buy the first two anytime in the next ten years unless I really like this one, so I might as well read it now.
It was OK. Not good enough for me to get the first two. Modern day with magic, but too much magic around to be 'believable'. 3/5

Next up: A very recent purchase, Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold. I expect it to be short but excellent. We'll see.
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Next up: A very recent purchase, Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold. I expect it to be short but excellent. We'll see.
Which was, as expected, simply splendid. I shall really enjoy doing a re-read of all the Penric Novellas in a year or two.

Next up: Another very recent purchase: Harpy's Flight by Megan Lindholm, who now writes as Robin Hobb. First in a Tetralogy.
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Now starting Jasper Fforde's newest release: The Constant Rabbit. An allegorical tale based on an alternate U.K. where a "Spontaneous Anthropomorphic Event" fifty-five years ago resulted in human-sized walking, talking rabbits living among us. Some of which, I'm told, refer to humans as "Fudds".
First Fforde book I've read where humor was a side effect rather than a specific goal. Considering the utterly preposterous premise of the book, I'm a bit surprised to say I rather enjoyed the way that decision played out.

Now starting Linda Nagata's newest near-future-thriller novel Pacific Storm. I'm already a big fan of her near- and far-future brands of science fiction.
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