Off Topic Chazz's Book Club

We had a book club bumped before the summer, i even think i bumped it. Wasn't this thread though unless lot of posts have been deleted.

 

I'm nearly finished reading Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder.

Then a biography of Captain Beefheart; Michael Connelly's The Gods of Guilt, which is a Mickey Haller rather than a Harry Bosch; Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories (which has been in the pile for a while); and AhdafSoueif's The Map of Love.

 

I searched and found a few, but can't see the date of, until I picked this one. Went to the end and thought the same as you - there was a more recent one. Couldn't be arsed...

 

Had a few holidays this summer so a selection of those read are.

One Summer America 1927 by Bill Bryson - bit big but 9/10

1971 Never A Dull Moment by David Hepworth - about the music scene of 1971 7.5/10

Map Addict by Mike Parker - the history of maps started ok but heavy going at the end 6/10

 

I tried that but found it hard to follow.

 

I got half way through Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie...but it just went ****ing on and on taking too bloody long to get to the point so I did what I hardly ever do and chucked it half way through

So I read Cruel Mercy by David Mark
Really enjoyed it. It's one of a series about a copper from Hull (the writer used to be a crime writer for Yorkshire Post) and in that book he goes to New York looking for someone
...weird reading a book mentioning both Times Square and Courtland Road!

 

Just read Karin Slaughter's first book "Blindsighted", really good read. Going to go on to the rest of the series now.

 

Black Neon by Tony O Neil.

You know that you're re getting with O Neil, an excellent read.

 

anyone else read the left hand of god trilogy? Bloody brilliant. I literally judged and bought the first book based on the cover and proved that stupid don't judge a book by its cover saying allllll wrong

 

I read the first one this summer. It was in a pile of books claiming to be a 'library' in our holiday villa. The rest were ****e but I fancied that one based on the title and cover alone.

Well impressed. I see a little of myself in Thomas Cale, except I'm probably more of a risk taking, bloodthirsty psychopath tbh.



And if I ever make a friend I'm going to call him Vague Henri.

 

the following books are v good too, well worth getting

 

They're on my list.

 

I've just recently bought that but not read it yet, although I really enjoyed reading his earlier books.

 

I've liked the local novels by Russ Litten & Nick Quantrill but avoided David Mark so far, however his new one The Zealot's Bones has caught my eye with the map of old Hull on the cover, his taken a local crime story back to 1849, might give it a go.

 

I would definitely recommend The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.

It shows pretty conclusively how modern archaeology and historians have already demonstrated that 90% of the Old Testament couldn't have happened.

 

I enjoyed what I've read

Not hugely complex, but a good easy read

 

You'll burn in hell Craigo.

 

I read a couple of David Marks' books. I think DMD told me they weren't brilliant, but the second one was a bit better than the first, so maybe he's getting the hang of things.

 

It's ok, there isn't one.