Monday 7 March 2016

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-ONE

Hopefully on the home stretch now, at least as far as physical books go - 20 or so tubs to go!

Tub seventy-one seems to be an almost even split between books my son has stored in the loft and my own titles. I'll endeavour to read some of them, I guess but I'm not a massive fan of James Patterson or for that matter science-fiction.

Tub 71!

James Patterson, Michael Simon, Thomas Harris, Koji Suzuki, Charles McCarry, 

Paul Christopher series book!

Koji Suzuki! No idea what it's about.

M. T. Anderson, John Macken, Frankie Dettori, D. B. Shan,

Vince Flynn, Jesse Kellerman, Tom Bouman, Neal Asher, Patricia Highsmith,

Tom Bouman!

Blog favourite - Patricia Highsmith - haha!

James Patterson, Stephen Jones, Jon Stock, Stephen M. Irwin, Jjames Patterson/Michael Ledwidge,

Jon Stock

Gregg Hurwitz, James Patterson, James Patterson/Michael Ledwidge, Sue Grafton, Jeff Abbott, 

Gregg Hurwitz

Another Kinsey book from Sue Grafton!

Eric Ambler x 2, Frank Herbert, James Patterson, Jeffrey Thomas,

Eric Ambler - an author I have yet to try!

Ditto above.

George V. Higgins, Peter Robinson, Len Deighton, Graham Hurley,

Len Deighton - Bernard Samson series book!

Sebastian Faulks, Stephen King, Marcus Sedgwick, Stephen Smith, Koushun Takami, 

Japanese YA book?

Charles Willeford, Tony O'Neill, Norman Mailer, Andrea Camilleri, Tony Hillerman,

Tony O'Neill - Sick City!

Charles Willeford - Autobiography!

Stephen King, Quintin Jardine, Mitchell Smith, Anthony J. Quinn,

Stieg Larsson, James Sallis,

Keith Jeffrey edited Magazine - Bullet Issue 1

Tub 71 - put to bed!


HIGHLIGHTS...... Eric Ambler (though I've never read him), Charles Willeford, Tom Bouman, Charles McCarry,

LOWLIGHTS....... James Patterson, Patterson/Ledwidge, Neal Asher, M. T. Anderson, Marcus Sedgwick, etc

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:


AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
ABBOTT JEFF TRUST ME 2009
AMBLER ERIC JOURNEY INTO FEAR 1940
AMBLER ERIC THE NIGHT-COMERS 1956
ANDERSON M. T. THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING: THE POX PARTY 2006 ON1
ASHER NEAL COWL 2004
BOUMAN TOM DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY 2014
CAMILLERI ANDREA THE SCENT OF THE NIGHT 2005 IM6
DEIGHTON LEN FAITH 1994 BS7
DETTORI FRANKIE FRANKIE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANKIE DETTORI 2004
FAULKS SEBASTIAN DEVIL MAY CARE 2008
FLYNN VINCE AMERICAN ASSASSIN 2010 MR1
GRAFTON SUE Q IS FOR QUARRY 2002 KM17
HARRIS THOMAS HANNIBAL RISING 2005 HL4
HERBERT FRANK CHILDREN OF DUNE 1976 D3
HIGGINS GEORGE V. THE JUDGMENT OF DEKE HUNTER 1976
HIGHSMITH PATRICIA THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY 1964
HILLERMAN TONY DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD 1973 JL2
HURLEY GRAHAM ANGELS PASSING 2000 F+W3
HURWITZ GREGG I SEE YOU 2007
IRWIN STEPHEN M. THE DARKENING 2009
JARDINE QUINTIN POISONED CHERRIES 2002 OB6
JEFFREY KEITH  BULLET 1 (ed.) 2004
JONES STEPHEN ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 2010
KELLERMAN JESSE THE EXECUTOR 2010
KING STEPHEN THE DARK TOWER: WIZARDS AND GLASS 1997 TDT4
KING STEPHEN THE DARK TOWER: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE 1985 TDT2
LARSSON STIEG THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST 2009 M3
MACKEN JOHN BREAKING POINT 2009 RM3
MAILER NORMAN AN AMERICAN DREAM 1965
McCARRY CHARLES THE MIERNIK DOSSIER 1971 PC1
O'NEILL TONY SICK CITY 2010
PATTERSON JAMES CROSS 2006 AC12
PATTERSON JAMES CROSS COUNTRY 2008 AC14
PATTERSON JAMES LONDON BRIDGES 2004 AC10
PATTERSON JAMES I, ALEX CROSS 2009 AC16
PATTERSON/LEDWIDGE JAMES/MICHAEL STEP ON A CRACK 2007 MB1
PATTERSON/LEDWIDGE JAMES/MICHAEL RUN FOR YOUR LIFE 2009 MB2
QUINN ANTHONY J. DISAPPEARED 2012 IDC1
ROBINSON PETER WEDNESDAY'S CHILD 1992 IB6
SALLIS JAMES BLACK HORNET 1994 LG3
SEDGWICK MARCUS REVOLVER 2009
SHAN D. B.  HELL'S HORIZON 2010 CT2
SIMON MICHAEL LITTLE FAITH 2006 DR3
SMITH STEPHEN CUBA - THE LAND OF MIRACLES 1997
SMITH MITCHELL DAY-DREAMS 1987
STOCK JON GAMES TRAITORS PLAY 2011 DM2
SUZUKI KOJI SPIRAL 1996 R2
TAKAMI KOUSHUN BATTLE ROYALE 2007 BR1
THOMAS JEFFREY BLUE WAR 2008 P3
WILLEFORD CHARLES I WAS LOOKING FOR A STREET 1988

16 comments:

  1. I have been trying to get a comment to work on here for ages Col. Without success, then today I thought I'd try and again and it ahs worked. Mind you, I have had to come to you via Google and not my WordPress page but hey ho. Here at last and boy, worth it or what! So pleased to be back and so much to catch up with. Trusting you are keeping well. Happy week. :)

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    1. Jane thanks for dropping by. I have the same problem in reverse, my comments on WordPress sites invariably don't post and I don't know why. Yes keeping well, back to work today for a rest after an exhausting stint in the kitchen yesterday, cooking for my better half and the girls! (Not my forte!)

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  2. I've wanted to read more Jesse Kellerman for a while now, Col. I'll be keen to know what you think of his work when you get to it. And I see you have Deighton, too, and Grafton and Highsmith. A nice selection, there (erm - but you can keep the Patterson).

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    1. I've not tried Kellerman Jnr. yet. Should be interesting!

      I hazard the Patterson books might be a bit formulaic, but hey hoh. I kind of admire him and his output. To be fair I bet his books have tempted more people to read than might otherwise have been the case, which of itself is a good thing.

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  3. THE MIERNIK DOSSIER is the only McCarry that I have read twice, but I plan to reread all the others eventually. Have you read much Ambler. The only one I have read that I did not like was THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS, which is everyone else's favorite.

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    1. Tracy, I've not read any from either McCarry or Ambler yet......hangs head in shame!

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  4. Col, I was going to comment on Ambler but Tracy beat me to it. She didn't mention Len Deighton though which is strange considered she is a big fan. I see that Battle Royale is in the tub. The movie (Japanese) is very interesting but probably not as shocking as it once was.

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    1. Glen, Deighton must have sneaked past her! Battle Royale is probably one of the few books from my son in this tub that I would be quite keen to read. I've never seen the film, not sure if he has, but I'll keep an eye out for it. It was quite controversial back in the day.

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  5. Col, lots of great authors and their books. I have been intending to read Norman Mailer's THE NAKED AND THE DEAD for a while now and so far it has remained just that — intention. Stephen King is also on the horizon, closer than before.

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    1. I have that one as well, but the only thing I've read from him is WHY ARE WE IN VIETNAM? many years ago. I always think of Jack Abbott when I hear Mailer mentioned.
      King used to be a big favourite many years ago.

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  6. Col – O’Neill’s SICK CITY and Willeford’s autobio are going on the TBR pile as soon as I can get my hands on them. Thanks.

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    1. Elgin, you'll be pleased to hear Willeford had two autobiographies published! The other one recounts his time spent in the army - SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER - only saying!

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    2. Thanks, Col – I will look for them. Funny thing about authors’ bios and auto-bios – some of them lead interesting, exciting lives, while others of them just sat on their behinds and wrote all their lives. And neither way lead to better or worse books. It just all depended on the minds putting words on paper.

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    3. Good luck tracking them down Elgin. I know what you mean. I do like Willeford when he's on form.

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  7. Ambler, Deighton and Grafton would be my choices from this list, you'd get a good month's reading from those three...

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    1. Ambler and Deighton probably more me than Kinsey, but hey I bought them, time to pay the piper and read some!

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