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Just finished "Last Ditch" by Ngaio Marsh, the 29th book in the "Inspector Alleyn" series. A young woman is killed, apparently in a horse riding accident, and Alleyn's son, a young writer, witnesses the event. Is all as it seems, and what, if any, is the connection with a local artist?
Pretty good, although not up to the quite exceptional standards of the previous book in the series, "Black As He's Painted". Almost at the end of the series now - only 3 books to go. Marsh shows absolutely no sign of deteriorating with age - a striking contrast with the truly dire books which Agatha Christie wrote (and really shouldn't have) in her final years. On next to "Voyage", by Stephen Baxter - hard SF at its best. An "alternate history" book in which NASA pressed on from the Apollo moon landings with an ambitious programme to carry out a manned mission to Mars. |
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05-03-2013, 12:37 PM | #16443 |
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I'm about 150 pages into Joe Hill's N0S4A2. Enjoying it so far!
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05-03-2013, 01:28 PM | #16444 | |
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05-03-2013, 02:39 PM | #16445 |
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I'm currently reading "Terra Amata," by J.M.G. LeClezio, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature about 3 years ago.
I'm almost finished with it, and I'm enjoying it - but I enjoy experimental literature. If you like experimental literature, then you might want to give him a try. Download a sample first, though. Don |
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05-03-2013, 03:56 PM | #16446 |
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I'm most of the way through a Nero Wolfe mystery Champagne for One, centering on "rehabilitated" unwed mothers, finding the story rather creepy overall, and will be glad to get it over with; I would've bailed, but am genuinely interested in the outcome (murderer).
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Going for a holiday so I am planning to read the first two books in MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, before the last novel comes out. |
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05-03-2013, 05:50 PM | #16448 |
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Not HarryT, but have read all three. Of the three, I think I'd probably have to go with the Allingham Campion books, but it's a really, really tough call. I've got almost all of the Ngaio Marsh books in Audible format as well, and they're quite enjoyable that way.
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Next was a short story (book?) that was a preorder freebie from Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette - The Twelfth Tablet by Tom Harper. "Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each has taken its own journey, and each has its own story to tell. This is one of those stories." I don't know if this .. ah.. I just found an additional part about this short book on his website, "Taking place a few months before The Orpheus Descent, this is one of those stories." So, this is a teaser to the new book about "2500 years ago, the philosopher Plato travelled to Italy on the trail of an ancient mystery – a riddle written in gold, pointing the way to an unimaginable truth. What he found changed him forever, and set him on the path to becoming the founding thinker of western civilisation. " The ebook is $16.79, so a pass for me. Maybe someday if the price comes down. Next up is Tom Kasey aka Peter Stuart Smith - The Dante Conspiracy [Historical Thriller] - free Apr 2013 Spoiler:
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