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  1. Hector

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    Got any recommendations for a good read?

    I'm reading TC Boyle at the minute but he's a bit up his own arse, James Lee Burke, Henning Mankell, George Pelecanos and Jo Nesbo can't write them fast enough so I'm looking for someone new. Not just cop and robber/serial killer stuff, just good writers writing interesting stories.
     
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  2. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Val McDermid, who writes the Wire in the Blood novels.

    The World According to Garp by John Irving.

    Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore were both fantastic books.
     
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  3. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    All of Simon Kernick's books. Very good reads and fast paced.
     
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  4. Hector

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    Read young Stalin, it was good, what is it about guys that thought about training for the priesthood..Stalin..Johnny Vegas..James McAvoy..
     
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    monacoger POTY 2021

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    A few years old now, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy was good.
     
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  6. Welcome to the North

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    Oldham Athletic miscellany <ok>
     
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  7. Hector

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    Val mcdermid? Is she the glasgow dyke?

    I saw a programme on the Scandic crime phenomenon that maybe she was on...prefer not to see the authors as i'm that ****ed up it spoils my enjoyment of there work, Martin Amis is another one, read London Fields before I saw him then tried to read Money and it wasn't happening for me...<laugh>

    But if you say she's good i'll give her a bash! (not literally obviously)
     
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    Thomas pinchyon - gravity's rainbow...... Amazing..
     
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    Christian Roberts 'Life Is A Game Of Inches' a brutally honest account of an alcoholic pro footballer.
     
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    Hash. pure daycent

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    weapon of choice a Tefal steam iron <ok>
     
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  12. Bollocks

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    Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy is a bit special.
     
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    Jack TheLad Well-Known Member

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    I don't read much, but I have read The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and couldn't put any of them down once I'd started.
     
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  14. rogueleader

    rogueleader suave gringo

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    sebastian junger - a death in belmont
    gideon mack - james robertson
    john the revelator - peter murphy

    are the best things Ive read recently

    older stuff ?

    if you havent read truman capote - in cold blood or ian banks - the wasp factory , you really should <ok>
     
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  15. Zico

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    Bernard Cornwell - Any (Except Sharpe)
    Simon Carrow - Ten book series on life in the Roman Legion (Excellent)
    Anthony Riches
    Christopher Brookmyre - Any
    Wilbur Smith - The Nile series
    Fredrick Forsyth - Avenger and Cobra
    Tom Clancy - Any (but `Without Remorse' esp.)
     
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    Anything by Violet Blue

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    Best new book: The Family by Martine Cole.

    Other than that any Truman Capote novel - but especially Other Voices, Other Rooms. Brilliant stuff.

    For a bit of classic teen angst - with razor-sharp wit - you can't beat The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

    And if you fancy getting seriously serious and having you harrow harrowed try Ugly by Constance Briscoe.

    For a light-hearted look at the world, life and everything then try anything by Bill Bryson.
     
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  18. Cosmic_LUFC

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    anything by Haruki Murakami
     
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    Anything by John Fante. Amazing writer.

    http://johnfante.com/
     
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    Noticed your avatar. Did you know they are making The Rum Diary into a film? Hunter S Thompson book. To the OP that's a great read.
     
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