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Hmm. Didn't know about "The City".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/City-James-H.../dp/0330324713

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Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
Long Lost - Harlan Coben
Generation Kill - Evan Wright

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Joe Pistone - Donnie Brasco

T.J. English - The Westies

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Book 1 of Peter F Hamilton's Night Dawns Trilogy - The Reality Dysfunction.

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Originally Posted by Mick Fisher (Post 34791770)

Book 1 of Peter F Hamilton's Night Dawns Trilogy - The Reality Dysfunction.

Excellent choice (imho) - the next two are even better.

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Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34791909)

Excellent choice (imho) - the next two are even better.

got to agree with you there....

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Into the Dark by Jonty Brown

Great Book

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"Into the Dark" offers a gripping insight into life in the RUC: the day-to-day reality of policing the streets of West Belfast during the dark days of the PIRA hunger strike, and what it was like to be a detective stationed in the "killing fields" of North Belfast during the 80s. The narrative lays bare some of the key terrorist personalities, as well as those operating within the Special Branch to pervert the course of justice as a means of asserting internal control.

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I've just read...

"Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder" by Derek Gunn

followed by:

"Vampire Apocalypse: Descent Into Chaos" by Derek Gunn

Great stuff. Recommended.

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Originally Posted by Graham (Post 233368)

Ok, in the hope of something slightly more cerebral than "what are you using to destroy your braincells", here's a thread for discussing what you're using to *inspire* them instead! ;)

So what are you reading at the moment? And what's good/ bad/ worth recommending/ worth avoiding about it?

For me it's currently "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett.

A story from the Discworld, Pratchett takes another of his hilarious satirical side-swipes at the lunacies of this world (helped, no doubt, by his experiences of working as a journalist before he started writing fiction).

As usual his plots and characterisations are spot on, the writing is excellent, humorous without being forced, touching without being sentimental and his observations are sharp and witty without being laboured.

If you've ever read Discworld and enjoyed it, you'll love this one, if you haven't, it's a good place to start because you don't really need to have read the earlier stories to understand the background.

Definitely recommended!

angels and demons,imo very good better than the davinci code.

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Shadow of the Scorpion - Neal Asher

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Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34798216)

Shadow of the Scorpion - Neal Asher

good isn't it ?

I read "gridlinked" years ago but have just decided to read the whole series.
Which means buying gridlinked again and getting "the line of polity"
The rest of the "cormac" novels are lined up ready to go:)

"prador moon" wasn't too bad either

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Yup - got / read them all.

Didn't think much of "Cowl" (non-Polity), but liked the rest (including Hilldiggers, which is slightly Polity, but not Cormac).

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The Execution Channel - Ken McLeod
A Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre

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Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34803138)

The Execution Channel - Ken McLeod
A Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre

Like Christopher Brookmyre, especially " A Big Boy did it and Ran Away". :rofl:

Just finished Neil Gayman - Anansi Boys :D

Currently reading Jonathan Kellerman - Bones

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Lovely Bones, by Alice Seabold.

Great book, about a young rape and killing, the girl who gets killed sort of looks down from wherever and the book is written fron her perspective about how all the alive family deal with it, and the final justice coming to the killer.

Wierd topic, but so well written, it is actually a compulsive read!