In reply to Mr_Asa :
I have started reading the book and I plan to read the notes after I finish the book
In reply to Mr_Asa :
I have started reading the book and I plan to read the notes after I finish the book
In the quarantine time, I'm learning a foreign language. I love to travel and my learning credits go to it fully.
mtn (Forum Supporter) said:
I just finished Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith. Excellent book, fast read, very disturbing. Set in Stalinist Russia, an MGB agent hunting down a child killer. I just got the sequel, The Secret Speech.
Secret Speech was excellent, as was the first. If I have a complaint, it is that you could recognize the "pattern" and guess generally what was going to happen about 50 pages into the book. But still a book I "couldn't put down" as much as you can't put down a book while also working 50+ hours a week with a 5 month old.
Wifey is picking up the last of the trilogy, Agent 6, at the library now for me.
I'll have to look into Child 44 and sequels. They sound interesting. I have a slight thing for Soviet Russia, for some reason.
Anybody read Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park? An excellent book with a very good movie adaptation. I should really read the sequels to that, Polar Star and Red Square, too.
The Stainless Steel Carrot by Sylvia Wilkinson.
It's a 47 year old book about a road racing team. Took me a while to find a copy.
It's hard to believe that Datsun 510s are considered vintage race cars now. I think Trans Am in the 70's is the best era of American Road Racing.
Duke said:I'll have to look into Child 44 and sequels. They sound interesting. I have a slight thing for Soviet Russia, for some reason.
Anybody read Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park? An excellent book with a very good movie adaptation. I should really read the sequels to that, Polar Star and Red Square, too.
If your library doesn't have it, let me know and I'll send you Child 44. I would send the Secret Speech, but I already told my dad I'd lend it to him next.
I'll look up Gorky Park after Agent 6.
In reply to mtn (Forum Supporter) :
Awesome, that's a generous offer. Thank you. We have a pretty good interlibrary loan network so if my local doesn't have it they can probably get it in a couple days.
I finished the expanse series. Started the last open road. Good read so far!
So, I've read the newest Dresden files twice now. I'm a little frustrated at Jim and/or his editors. I understand it was a long LONG time coming for this book, and the next one is out in two or three months, but damn is it obvious that they just cut the book in half so he could finish the last half.
I pulled Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie out of my Christie collection to re-read again last night because I was in the mood for some Poirot.
I needed a break from Brentford, so I went in an entirely different direction.
Now reading Evolution by Stephen Baxter. A very interesting alternate history that goes from Jurassic period to present chasing the lineage of mammals.
OwenWalker said:I recently finished reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Incredible book, I'm delighted.
Heh, don't say that too loudly around here.
In reply to Duke :
Our friend Owen is a canoe salesman.
Anyone heard of this? It sounds interesting, but I hate trying a new author and not liking them.
Duke said:OwenWalker said:I recently finished reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Incredible book, I'm delighted.
Heh, don't say that too loudly around here.
Everybody should read that book. Everybody should also read Marx. Educate yourselves.
I'll note, that OwenWalker's post was removed because it was edited with a picture that was a hotlink to a dissertation services site.
Woo! Called it!
Finished the new Dresden book. Overall I admit that my takeaway from it is how much I've come to dislike the characters and what they've become. It goes from kinda stupid to ridiculous at times, Butters being the latter really.
I miss the books where Michael was cool, Molly was interesting and the characters were......likable.
Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter. Fantastic. I can't put it down.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538320/game-of-snipers-by-stephen-hunter/
Duke said:I'll have to look into Child 44 and sequels. They sound interesting. I have a slight thing for Soviet Russia, for some reason.
Anybody read Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park? An excellent book with a very good movie adaptation. I should really read the sequels to that, Polar Star and Red Square, too.
I read Child 44 and The Secret Speech (one of the sequels) and really enjoyed them. Have you read "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles? It's starts shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution and follows the life of a Russian aristocrat who is sentenced to permanent house arrest in one of the fanciest hotels in Moscow because he had written some poems 5 years earlier that weren't supportive of socialism. It covers 30+ years of his life but shows how every aspect of life changed under socialist rule for ordinary Russians.
I was skeptical of it when i was told the basic plot, but I really liked it.
I just introduced my 11 year old daughter to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series. Shes in love!
Schmidlap said:Duke said:I'll have to look into Child 44 and sequels. They sound interesting. I have a slight thing for Soviet Russia, for some reason.
Anybody read Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park? An excellent book with a very good movie adaptation. I should really read the sequels to that, Polar Star and Red Square, too.
I read Child 44 and The Secret Speech (one of the sequels) and really enjoyed them. Have you read "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles? It's starts shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution and follows the life of a Russian aristocrat who is sentenced to permanent house arrest in one of the fanciest hotels in Moscow because he had written some poems 5 years earlier that weren't supportive of socialism. It covers 30+ years of his life but shows how every aspect of life changed under socialist rule for ordinary Russians.
I was skeptical of it when i was told the basic plot, but I really liked it.
Another vote for Gorky Park and A Gentleman in Moscow, so yeah, will have to look into Child 44. Also read Midnight in Chernobyl earlier this summer; even if you've seen the HBO miniseries (or especially if you have), you'll find it pretty fascinating. Fills in a lot of gaps, in particular regarding the social and scientific backgrounds that explain why Soviet reactor design and management had critical flaws.
Margie
In reply to Duke :
Also Wolves Eat Dogs...one of his best yet.
Well, my list now looks pretty long. Apparently Gorky Park is the first of a [so far] 9 part series. I'll add that to the library list. Gentleman in Moscow looks like a winner too. I may even get my wife to read that as her favorite movie of all time is Dr. Zhivago.
I just finished Agent 6 which was the last in the Leo Demidov (Child 44) series. It was not as good as the first two, but I still couldn't put it down. I just wasn't happy with the last 100 pages or so.
Warning for anyone who starts Child 44, which to me was easily the most disturbing of the 3, the story line takes inspiration from Andrei Chikatilo. Be warned going into it.
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