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A SFER after my own heart.Love Richard Morgan to bits but not McLeod.

How about Iain Banks?C J Cherryh?L R Modesitt Jnr? They write hard SF but primarily about people.

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Yup - like those as well; the ones I gave were just my top couple of authors, but I have about two thousand books (paperback and hardback), and I keep re-reading them (as well as buying new stuff).

I would really recommend John Scalzi (Old Man's War, Ghost Brigades, Agent to the Stars, and a few others) - like an modern Robert Heinlein (imho), without his late-life obsession with badly written sex scenes. His website is http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/, but he also wrote a great piece on what it means to be poor - here is the first couple of lines:-
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they're what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there's not an $800 car in America that's worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won't hear you say "I get free lunch" when you get to the cashier.

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Years ago I liked to read Frederick Pohl. and one that I remember was called "Way Station", I used to read a lot of Sci-Fi then, and in the sixties and seventies they were quite scarce, I'd go to the library and look for that special yellow jacket, it wasn't until I was working in Manchester, that I got to have a look in the "book" stores and to me, it was like being in a sweet shop, all these wonderful authors, writing what I wanted to read, and of course Heinlen was the top man followed by Theodore Sturgeon, and there were a load of others as well, Aszimov, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and a load I can't remember, but at the time they were wonderful and 'I can't remember what I've forgotten'....lets put it like this, over the years, the local school fete's have made plenty out of my book clear outs, but it was either that or me moving into my garden shed, just today my Mag has arrived from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Club, and I always think, no don't buy any more, but, there is "The Forest Mage" by Robin Hobb and "Shadow Play by Tad Williams" also "The Blood Knight" by Greg Keyes there is loads of stuff in it, I'm wondering if I should buy "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch, I believe they are going to make a film of it, and I would prefer to read it first, and Tom Holt's new one "Barking" I think that title give it away, but perhaps I'm wrong, here we go again, that's annoying "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" only £3.99, I should have waited, must get my order in, looks like five more to order, have I got the room?

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Reading Wilt in Nowhere at the moment...Tom Sharpe is up to his usual humorous standards :D

Whilst I enjoy Sci-Fi for reading a change is well worth it

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Currently reading 'The Husband' by Dean Koontz - it's not rocket science, but it does what it says on the tin...

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I liked Altered Carbon, but was disappointed with the other two, especially Woken Furies....

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Bit of a :bump: Seems like nobody has been reading lately!

I've just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon. Extremely good book... one of those that you just can't put down (mmm two nights of sleep deprivation while i tried to finish it).

I've now started Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich for bedtime reading, seems good so far. And The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman for daytime reading. Has some very interesting views on globalisation and the emergence of Indian/ Chinese call centres, but far too heavy for bedtime reading!

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I have started reading "the hard way" by lee child. Not a bad book really. I dont normally read much but have decided to get more into it and hopefully it will improve my poor grammer and spelling.

Has any1 else read any of the lee child jack reacher novels ? I only started reading this one but I am liking it. I know there are more in the series about 6 or 7 I think and might go back and read them to.

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I have read that book!!!
Currently I am reading economics notes/books for my exam tomorrow lol.........;)

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Richard Morgan's latest, Black Man.A new character but as good as his first book thus far.:)

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i have started reading lee child too

i have started 'the visitor' and i have just finished 'one shot' both good reads,i have tripwire,killing floor and without fail all waiting to be read,our local cancer relief shop had gotten someones collection so i snapped them up:D


another good 'series' is the DCI banks novels by peter robinson

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I've read them all - I would recommend them.

Also try (imho) Nelson DeMille and Harlan Coben - both cracking authors and good story tellers.

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i picked up 4 or 5 demille books from our local flea market,going to give em a go after i run out of reachers

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I finally got hold of The Day of the Triffids so I have started to listen to that :tu:

Not sure what to go for next. Still trying to find a good reading of War of the Worlds.

I have Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption to listen to so I may go for that I think :)

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Just started Good Omens by TP and Neil Gaiman (well I say started, I mean read the fist two pages :erm: ) I hope it's good.

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I liked it - it's a bit darker than the early TP books.

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I'm in the middle of Ubik by Philip K Dick. Weird.

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I've just wired my iPOD into my amp so my books are nice and loud now :)

I just started another Dresden book :)

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Samuel Pepys - The Unequal Self.

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After another brush with Hawking and 'The Universe in a Nutshell' I'm now listening to Rendevous with Rama.

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I am reading "Pretend you don't see her" a murder mystery

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Dresden as in Dresden Files?


Any good?


I liked the TV series, been meaning to try the books.

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I was very impressed with the Dresden books, not seen the TV series tho.

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Finally got round to The Hobbit, in a mad dash though to finish it before Mr Potter arrives though...

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Cool. I'll have to give 'em a go.


I think the TV series was pretty good. Bit shaky at the start, but improved a lot.

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Last Book: Secrets and Lies

Current Book: Dune

Next Book: The Shellcoder's Handbook, Linux Administration Handbook, or Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent

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While waiting for the new Harry Potter book, I'm reading Book 7 the Vile Village by Lemony Snicket to my son

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2nd last book - Trading in Danger, by Elizabeth Moon
Last book - Glasshouse, by Charles Stross
Just starting - Black Man, by Richard Morgan

Holiday books sitting in the back room, waiting to be packed to go to the Med -
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi
Crossover: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - Joel Shepherd
The Woods - Harlan Coben
The Truth With Jokes - Al Franken
Designated Targets - John Birmingham
Final Impact - John Birmingham

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Currently reading Ronans Revenge by James Bibby

Definitely one for Nug as this has more puns per page than even he can come up with from Baq Door to Gudmornen and the Ilex Plains to Nevacom Plains. not to mention Near Kinnel and our heroes Ronan, Tyson, Tarl & Puss (the talking Donkey) well before Shrek and Stargate Atlantis (although the Ronan character is very similar in appearance)

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Currently reading latest Custom PC and the Graphics card lab test.

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I think you need to get out more :D

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The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld...

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started re-reading all the discworld novels.
about to start "carpe jugulum" (downstairs) nearly finished "guards guards" (upstairs)

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By tonight I'll have finished 'Kingdom Come', the final book in the Left Behind series and this one covers what happens when Satan is released from the Lake of Fire at the end of Christ's thousand-year reign. Excellent end to a fantastic series, more than 50 million sold in series and numerous New York Times best sellers.

And after that I'll be starting on Andy McNab's Recoil.

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Just finished The Man with The Golden Torc by Simon Green.

OO7 Druidic style and introducing Edwin Drood aka as Shaman Bond.

I love Green's wisecracking laconic Chandleresque dialogue. :D

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Just finished book one of the new Trudi Canavan series "Priestess of the White"... Characters and situations you can believe in.. Will start book 2 "Last of the Wilds" shortly. A new writer worth having a try of if you like this genre of books.

First series "The Black Magicians" trilogy.

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Have done that and read them by series too. :tu:
Currently reading Strata again (a pre discworld novel)

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Finished "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Excellent book. I loved the way the characters and story evolved.

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It`s a few years since i`ve had the chance to read books....not since the latter of my kids came along anyway:)

I was once an avid reader but the only books i`ve really been reading for the last few years have been bedtime stories & count with mum etc(pops then)
Although my kids range 2 - 14 it was`nt until about 5 years ago i kinda stopped reading myself.Just never found the time for books once the family started getting bigger & the hours got longer(average for our families mind you) :)

Fortunately the last 17 months with computers has gave me cause to be reading again though as i`ve spent lots(and lots and lots the wife would tell you) of that time reading online forums,manuals,guides,howtos,wikis & even the odd man pages...sad i know:o:
I spend a lot of my pc time on Ubuntuforums.org not just learning everything & anything i can cram in but also helping others out with the things i`ve learnt about myself,and of course helping dispell some of the pre-conceived ideas/beliefs & mis-information many arrive there with:blah:

My heads actually full of tooooo much information now i think and it probably all needs defragmented a bit so i can at least make sense of some of it.

I`ve sometimes had to stop myself taking a laptop to work in the mornings as i really cant start doing that nonsense.Skiving off up on some roof somewhere,lying in the sun,bitching on CF about the terrible speeds i`m getting on someone elses wireless connection:D

:D

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TN, may I recommend the prequel (Forever Peace, not involving the same characters), and Forever Free (direct sequel) - the book you just read is where my nom de internet comes from. :D

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I have just listened to asimovs i robot audiobook....

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Potter, for my sins...

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Heartbreak and Triumphs by Shawn 'HBK' Michaels - the autobiography of the legendary WWE wrestler.

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Heat magazine :shrug:








:p:

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Soon to be Harry Potter.

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I could never really get into Terry Pratchet myself....
The best fantasy i ever read though,asides from Lord of the Rings was Raymond Feists Magician.....Excellent read.

The sequels were never quite as good but the Magician itself was great.

:disturbd:
With my dear wife and a house full of daughters the table often looks like something you`d see round the doctors:)

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Magician is a brilliant book, first read it cover to cover one Christmas Eve (well Christmas morning) :D

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Judas Unchained, still, Peter F. Hamilton, good stuff, reminiscent of old style like the lensman series, but much more sophisticated :tu:

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Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen

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I might start reading Insanity Never Sleeps which was written by my aunties husband, he's also got other books like Nutural Evil.

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Argos Catalouge.




*that has to be a first for this thread* ;)

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I`d never actually read a fantasy type book until someone gave me the Magician one day, telling me how fantastic it was and how i really had to read it.
It Lay on a shelf for months until one night i realised i never had anything else to read....turned out he was absolutely right of course:)

I dont think i read it as quick as you though:shocked:.
You must have had trouble sleeping that night i take it.......all that excitement about Santa coming was it.;)

Now thats the one book that is a constant here at home.
I dont read it much mind you,i just hand the money over after others have read it:dozey:

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Terry Pratchett - Capé Jugulum

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In Ghat they believe in vampire watermelons, although folklore is silent about what they believe about vampire watermelons. Possibly they suck back.-- (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum) http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g8...ogg/drecul.gif

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Re-reading Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. First read it in the 70s, thoroughly enjoyed it at the time but then lost/lent out my copy. Found it on line and decided to see if it had stood the test of time. It does.:)

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i am reading the you & your wedding website forums. why i chose to do so 12 days before our wedding (as it keeps reminding me!) agh! :)

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I've bought my hat https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2007/08/13.gif and I intend to wear it whilst I sit at my computer on your big day.

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teehee! :D

you have so many cool smilies Jo!


and before anyone yells at me for being off topic - I don't really do much reading cos I haven't got the concentration. I read some of the observer yesterday... :p:

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Agreed. I read this twice, too, and if anything enjoyed it more the second time around.

For anyone who hasn't read it, the title refers to an area the size of the island of Zanzibar upon which the entire human population (7 billion in 2010) can stand shoulder-to-shoulder.

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I am reading Cruel and unusual a crime story by Patricia Cornwall

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stephen king again last book dark tower done them all big read very good

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Ultimate Weapon by Chris Ryan

What a load of cobblers

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let me know what you think when you get to the end. Frankly if I had known that was coming I would have saved myself all that time and money .

At the moment i'm reading the Chronicle by Guaman Poma writting in about 1600 .

Not on the intro at the moment so can't say if it's any good.

It;s the first account of have of the Spainish Conquest that was written from the Inca side so looking forward to getting some of their views.

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The Mitrokhin Archive pt2 : The KGB in the World

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Teasing Secrets From The Dead by Emily Craig.

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im probably the only saddo reading a good ol' bit of shakespeare

king henry the fifth to be precise

fantastic play

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Freakonomics...pop science and very readable :tu:

Going to start the Harry Potter stuff with the kids as soon as I can find the first book in a bookshop or library!! :mad:

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noooo, get the books from charity shops - look in the 'kids books' sections first, as they are much cheaper. ;)

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Iain M. Banks - The Wasp factory.

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ah. A classic.

Though to be picky it's acutally 'Iain Banks' - he uses the 'M' when it's sci-fi :)

I find his non scifi novels a bit hit and miss really - wasp factory was good, espedair street was good, and so was complicity - the others I could take or leave really (though I haven't read the last 2 or 3)

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Yeah, not bad. Rather weird, & 1 hell of a twist at the end.

Pfft. whatever. :rolleyes:

Mysteriously a folder of 20 of them has just appeared on my hard drive. Can't imagine how they got there. ;) Going through them in chronological order, reading Walking on Glass now.

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Is that the one with the immovable object and the unstoppable force?

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I've just finished Harry Potter - I was most impressed (or, at least, I would have been if someone at work hadn't given me a massive plot spoiler yesterday :mad: )

Now I've just got to decide between 2 Stephen Kings, a Jasper Fforde, a James Herbert and about 3 others to choose between for what's next :)

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Apparently so - not got that far yet.

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ok, I won't give it away then by telling you that the main character is in fact a small monkey wearing a clever disguise and answers to the name 'Peter'.
He also has a unicycle.

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white teeth, zadie smith, I can't really say it is compelling, kind of something to read until I find something else..

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Just started reading A Spot Of Bother, Mark Haddon- very similar style to The Curious Incident... but i haven't quite got into it yet.

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& the really depressing ending. :( I think I'm going to stick to his books about The Culture from now on.

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Speaking of which, now reading Consider Phlebas.

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I like his 'Culture' stuff :tu:

Just starting the Harry Potter books now :disturbd:

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SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) by Paul McGee

(very enlightening it is too ;))

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I've just read "Next" by Michael Crichton.

Very interesting, very good :tu:

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I'm reading The Player of Games now.

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Good book that - the next one 'Use of Weapons' IMO, is the best culture book he's done.

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Terry Pratchett - Capé Jugulum here

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Just finished two books while on holiday. Grass, enjoyed it, and Mr Nasty. which was not bad. Looking for my next one now

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The Truth With Lies - Al Franken

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A briefer history of time, again.

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That one's next, just started The State of the Art.

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Just finished HP7 - good ending to the series, and I appreciated the epilogue.

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Currently working my way through the "Heroes" comics (short PDF "Graphic Novels").

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..about to start 'The Witches of Chiswick' by Robert Rankin

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Black Man, by Richard Morgan

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Market Forces is next after Chiswick...

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Just got all the foundation books in audio book. Not read them before so I hope they are good. May well take a few days to listen to them all :)

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Hunter Davies' Biography

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You are in for a treat :tu: :D

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Have you read the Takeshi Kovacs series of books (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, & Woken Furies)? - cracking books, imho.

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yeah read them - Altered Carbon was brilliant, woken furies was good - thought broken angels was a bit of a let down

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Presently reading his latest The Black Man.Trying not to finish it too soon.I hope this new character reappears in any future novels.:)

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Quote:
I saw this book on sale for £3.99 and remembered that it had been recommended. Just finished it and thought it was really good. I will be looking out for more books by John Connolly in the future.