MobileRead August 2017 Book Club Nominations

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by bfisher

But it was the selection last August. Shouldn't that rule it out?

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Yes, that does disqualify it. So it needs to be removed from the 2nd post.

Opps! I was thinking "nomination"! You and Issybird are right, of course, and I'll fix it now.

sufue, you have that vote back.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Opps! I was thinking "nomination"! You and Issybird are right, of course, and I'll fix it now.

sufue, you have that vote back.

My fault; I should have said selection.

[GA Russell]

I nominate the first Mr. Moto story, Your Turn, Mr. Moto (aka No Hero) by John P. Marquand.

Amazon - $7.99
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Turn-Mr-...dp/B010N0057O/

Kobo - $8.69
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/your-turn-mr-moto

B&N Nook - $9.49
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/you...and/1000150561

or three for $13.99
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...and/1123906456

[sufue]

Well, darn! I don't read all that many thriller-ish/suspence-ish/crime-ish, as opposed to mystery-ish books, so will have to think hard. I wonder what else I remember reading under the covers with a flashlight....

Also, given my previous problem, is there a list somewhere of books that have already been "done"?

EDIT: Never mind - just found the list....

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Opps! I was thinking "nomination"! You and Issybird are right, of course, and I'll fix it now.

sufue, you have that vote back.

[Alohamora]

I'll second "Your turn Mr. Moto"

[sufue]

Okay, I've come up with another one, and checked the overall list of selections, and also nominations in the last six months - in any month that seemed as if it might be applicable. And this title seems clean...

So here goes:

Alistair MacLean was another of my favorite "flashlight-under-the-covers" thriller authors, and probably one of his most famous books is his first, The Guns of Navarone. What's more, it's quite nicely priced at Kindle UK right now, and not too bad at Kindle US either. And, IMO, it's also among his best, so that's my replacement nomination.

Kindle US, $5.99: https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Navarone...dp/B0047T6W3Y/
Kindle UK, £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Navaro...dp/B0047T6W3Y/

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now issued for the first time as an e-book.

Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skilled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war…

[John F]

I'll second The Guns of Navarone.

[JSWolf]

I think someone should nominate a book that's a crime that it's been written.

[issybird]

I'll third The Guns of Navarone.

[WT Sharpe]

I'll third Your Turn, Mr. Moto. While the idea of a white man (Peter Lorre) playing a Japanese role in the movies is not something most people are comfortable with today, the basic idea of an oriental detective in a society where orientals at the time were not given their due respect was probably considered very forward thinking when the books on which the movies were based were written.

[sufue]

And IIRC (it has been a very long time since I've read any of them) there's some pretty interesting political/world affairs background in the series too...

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I'll third Your Turn, Mr. Moto. While the idea of a white man (Peter Lorre) playing a Japanese role in the movies is not something most people are comfortable with today, the basic idea of an oriental detective in a society where orientals at the time were not given their due respect was probably considered very forward thinking when the books on which the movies were based were written.

[sufue]

Okay, here are two - take your pick - but I'm not wasting my last remaining vote on either...

Political Murder and Dot Com Murder are both horribly written/produced continuations in the John Thatcher series by Emma Lathen, so I think it's fair to say that it's a crime either of these was written. The premise (continuing with John's daughter, Elizabeth, as the protagonist) is sort of cute, but I only made it through about three or four pages of one of them that I KU'd to try out, and then just glanced at the sample of the other, which was just as bad.

These are sort of part-and-parcel of the "Deaver Brown/Simply Media" incredibly badly produced ebook publication of the excellent original John Thatcher titles, discussed on MR starting both here and here. (I'm still relying on my PDFs of my old aged-brown paperbacks, which gives a clue as to how badly produced these are...)

Anyway, up to someone else to waste a vote on one of these if they wish , but I do think either meets your request.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I think someone should nominate a book that's a crime that it's been written.

[Luffy]

I third Vanishing Act.

[JSWolf]

Since we need more books with three nods, it's time to give Playing with Fire and Stillhouse Lake nods instead of trying to come up with new nominations.

[Luffy]

I second Playing With Fire.