The Books/Reading Thread

[CiG]

Devastating.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Yeah, it's heartbreaking.

To anyone curious about the most metal manga of all time, I highly recommend the deluxe edition reissues. I have the first volume and I want to pick up the rest when I quit being broke. The book itself is colossal, never seen any manga printed at that size before, and with the all-black hardcover it sits in my bookshelf like a sinister bible.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the Eva Gates Lighthouse Library mystery novel A Death Long Overdue. I wrote about it via this Goodreads.com review link.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Drizzt Do'Urden and Cattie-Brie have a daughter now...
...and nobody cares...

 

[TageRyche]

My two most recent Mystery Scene reviews are finally online.

Ruby Red Herring by Tracy Gardner

Bone Rattle by Marc Cameron

 

[Einherjar86]

Haven't posted here in a while. Got some good stuff over the past few months.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[TageRyche]

My review of the C.J. Box thriller Dark Sky was finally posted online. You can check it out via this Mystery Scene Magazine link.

 

[no country for old wainds]

any of you aussie fucks read paul jennings or morris gleitzman when you were kids? round the twist was a big kids tv favourite here and wicked! was basically the best shit ever, i just found out there was a tv adaptation which i am 100% gonna watch.

 

[Slayed Necros]

man I remember Paul Jennings. read a bunch of his shit before I was 10. hadn't thought about that in fucking years... thanks for dredging up bad memories asshole

 

[CiG]

Yeah I remember that cunt's books.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol wicked is unironically good tho, properly wacked out disturbing post-apocalyptic shit, i’d never read anything like it ‘cause i don’t think british kids’ fiction writers would get away with that shit

 

[Bloopy]

Yeah, had a couple of Paul Jennings books at least. When I was 12 we had to come up with a radio show in groups in English class and tape it, and my dumb arse thought it'd be a good idea to tape reading the whole of The Gizmo. So when our group played our tape to the class we ended up just fast forwarding most of it.

 

[TageRyche]

Three mystery novels I read recently:

Gone For Good by Joanna Schaffhausen
A Different Dawn by Isabella Maldonado
Without A Brew by Ellie Alexander

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

The bartimaeus trilogy book 1 the amulet of samarkand

It's a comedy book

I've only read a few chapters and already laughing my ass off

 

[TageRyche]

Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of Defending Britta Stein by Ronald H. Balson.

 

[TageRyche]

Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of The Cellist by Daniel Silva.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of The Cellist by Daniel Silva.

im actually intrigued by the way that "the ongoing pandemic" and "the most recent presidential election" are worked into a work of fiction

 

[TageRyche]

im actually intrigued by the way that "the ongoing pandemic" and "the most recent presidential election" are worked into a work of fiction

When an author chooses to include real world events into their books as opposed to either ignoring the pandemic or making up a fictional president, it is a delicate balancing act to get things right. Daniel Silva does a great job.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

When an author chooses to include real world events into their books as opposed to either ignoring the pandemic or making up a fictional president, it is a delicate balancing act to get things right. Daniel Silva does a great job.

there's lots of books where they need to mention the name of the president of the united states and the author just makes up a fictional president
don't think i've seen a CIA-spy-type-of-novel use the real name of the current president for the last several presidents

also
haven't seen many fiction books mention the pandemic yet, so there's that