Another week, another 50......
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| Pre-logging look - OUT OF THE GUTTER has been relocated to a future tub! |
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| Can't beat a bit of espionage! |
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| McGill - Canada, O'Brien - US, Ammaniti - Italy, Booker - ?, Le Carre - England, |
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| Spindler - my wife's, James W. Hall x 2, Tom Piccirilli, Robert G. Barrett - Aus |
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| US author - crime and horror fields |
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| Can't wait until its my turn for this one! |
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| Elmore, Eddie Bunker, Richard Price, Ian Rankin, Alex Berenson |
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| 1st Rebus I think, |
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| Furst, Deaver, Caputo, Wambaught, MacDonald Fraser, |
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| Anyone read Flashman? |
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| Tracy, Blauner, Elmore again, 2 from Adam Baron |
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| A priest who looks like he's up to no good! |
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| James W Hall, 3 from Peter Corris, William P. McGivern, |
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| I have double figures from this author and not tried him yet. I'm off to bark at the moon! |
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| Another Corris |
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| Deja-vous, ditto! |
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| Thomas Harris, James Sallis, Barrett again, Flashman again, plus obligatory Lawrence Block book! |
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| Robert Harris, Christopher Fowler, Peter Hedges, and a couple of Elmore's |
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| The King! |
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| Harold Robbins, a couple from Michael Stone, another Rankin, MacDonald Fraser again! |
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| Royal Flash - but not Harry playing naked billiards! |
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| Scottish crime |
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| 50's novel I think, did it win an Edgar or have I made that up? |
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| James Patterson - my son's, Paul Burke, John Grisham |
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| All time life hero - Muhammed Ali book from David Remnick, |
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| Post-logging look! |
Thoughts on the tub..... not especially looking forward to the Erica Spindler. I might enjoy the book, but its not an attractive one. I really ought to pull my finger out and read something from Peter Corris and try a Flashman book by George MacDonald Fraser - they seem a bit of a departure from my usual reading.
Only two female authors in the tub - that's going to bump up my gender equality average!
Full list of 50.....
| AUTHOR |
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TITLE |
YEAR |
SERIES |
FICTION/NON |
| AMMANITI |
NICCOLO |
THE CROSSROADS |
2009 |
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F |
| BARON |
ADAM |
SUPERJACK |
2002 |
BR3 |
F |
| BARON |
ADAM |
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT |
2000 |
BR2 |
F |
| BARRETT |
ROBERT G. |
AND DE FUN DON'T DONE |
1993 |
LN7 |
F |
| BARRETT |
ROBERT G. |
GOODOO GOODOO |
1998 |
LN13 |
F |
| BERENSON |
ALEX |
THE GHOST AGENT |
2008 |
JW2 |
F |
| BLAUNER |
PETER |
THE INTRUDER |
1996 |
|
F |
| BLOCK |
LAWRENCE |
SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS |
1969 |
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F |
| BOOKER |
MICHAEL |
THE BUSINESS |
2010 |
|
F |
| BUNKER |
EDWARD |
THE ANIMAL FACTORY |
1977 |
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F |
| BURKE |
PAUL |
THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE |
2004 |
|
F |
| CAPUTO |
PHILIP |
A RUMOR OF WAR |
1977 |
|
N |
| CORRIS |
PETER |
THE REWARD |
1997 |
CH21 |
F |
| CORRIS |
PETER |
SALT AND BLOOD |
2002 |
CH26 |
F |
| CORRIS |
PETER |
MATRIMONIAL CAUSES |
1993 |
CH18 |
F |
| DEAVER |
JEFFERY |
THE BONE COLLECTOR |
1997 |
LR1 |
F |
| FOWLER |
CHRISTOPHER |
WHITE CORRIDOR |
2007 |
B+M5 |
F |
| FURST |
ALAN |
BLOOD OF VICTORY |
2002 |
NS7 |
F |
| GRISHAM |
JOHN |
A PAINTED HOUSE |
2000 |
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F |
| HALL |
JAMES W. |
ROUGH DRAFT |
2000 |
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F |
| HALL |
JAMES W. |
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT |
2005 |
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F |
| HALL |
JAMES W. |
OFF THE CHART |
2003 |
TPI8 |
F |
| HARRIS |
THOMAS |
HANNIBAL |
1999 |
HL3 |
F |
| HARRIS |
ROBERT |
POMPEII |
2003 |
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F |
| HEDGES |
PETER |
WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE |
1991 |
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F |
| HIMES |
CHESTER |
PINKTOES |
1961 |
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F |
| LE CARRE |
JOHN |
OUR KIND OF TRAITOR |
2010 |
|
F |
| LEONARD |
ELMORE |
52 PICK-UP |
1974 |
|
F |
| LEONARD |
ELMORE |
PAGAN BABIES |
2000 |
|
F |
| LEONARD |
ELMORE |
LA BRAVA |
1983 |
|
F |
| LEONARD |
ELMORE |
BANDITS |
1986 |
|
F |
| MACDONALD FRASER |
GEORGE |
FLASHMAN'S LADY |
1977 |
FP6 |
F |
| MACDONALD FRASER |
GEORGE |
FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE |
1973 |
FP4 |
F |
| MACDONALD FRASER |
GEORGE |
ROYAL FLASH |
1970 |
FP2 |
F |
| McGILL |
ROBERT |
THE MYSTERIES |
2004 |
|
F |
| McGIVERN |
WILLIAM P. |
ODDS AGANST TOMORROW |
1957 |
|
F |
| O'BRIEN |
TIM |
JULY, JULY |
2002 |
|
F |
| PATTERSON |
JAMES |
THE BIG BAD WOLF |
2003 |
AC9 |
F |
| PICCIRILLI |
TOM |
THE MIDNIGHT ROAD |
2007 |
|
F |
| PRICE |
RICHARD |
CLOCKERS |
1992 |
|
F |
| RANKIN |
IAN |
KNOTS & CROSSES |
1987 |
IR1 |
F |
| RANKIN |
IAN |
LET IT BLEED |
1995 |
IR7 |
F |
| REMNICK |
DAVID |
KING OF THE WORLD |
1998 |
|
N |
| ROBBINS |
HAROLD |
A STONE FOR DANNY FISHER |
1952 |
|
F |
| SALLIS |
JAMES |
MOTH |
1993 |
LG2 |
F |
| SPINDLER |
ERICA |
BONE COLD |
2001 |
|
F |
| STONE |
MICHAEL |
TOKEN OF REMORSE |
1998 |
S3 |
F |
| STONE |
MICHAEL |
TOTALLY DEAD |
1999 |
S4 |
F |
| TRACY |
P. J. |
SNOW BLIND |
2006 |
MW4 |
F |
| WAMBAUGH |
JOSEPH |
LINES AND SHADOWS |
1984 |
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You may know that La Brava was going to be film starring Dustin Hoffman but Hoffman was such a pain that the production was scuppered. Elmore wrote Get Shorty inspired by this.
ReplyDeleteNo, I never knew that. I have it in my head that Hoffman is an all-round nice guy - genial, smart, easy-going. Maybe its all acting, all of the time!
DeleteI heard the other week that John Irving is possibly the vainest man alive.....that's two illusions shattered then.
Col, "Pagan Babies" was the first Elmore Leonard novel I read and it turned out to be crime rather than western. Not much of a story but lots of dialogue, which Leonard was famous for. I definitely intend to read Tom Piccirilli. I liked "A Stone for Danny Fisher" by Harold Robbins the first time I read it, in my teens, not so much when I reread it, a couple of years ago. I must have grown up. It was one of his more famous pulps.
ReplyDeleteI've not yet read Pagan Babies, though I have read most of his other stuff (a few more than once).I think Leonard along with George V. Higgins was regarded as one of those novelists featuring a lot of dialogue. I like those kinds of books myself.
DeleteThe Danny Fisher book I got after seeing it on a list of best noirs. I doubt I will read any other Robbins books.
Col, while in college I read most of Harold Robbins and Irving Wallace. Robbins wrote one other book that I liked — 79, Park Avenue — about a young woman who is forced into prostitution to make ends meet or something like that. It was a fairly good book.
ReplyDeleteThose books always seemed quite racy to my teenage self. For some reason we had a Wallace book in the house - THE FAN CLUB (maybe ?) about a gang of men kidnapping a sex symbol actress or model for their own sexual gratification. Strange really as it wasn't the sort of thing either of my parents would read.
DeleteCol - You're quite right: Knots and Crosses is the first Rebus. I hope you'll enjoy it. I think that's a great series. And you have Peter Corris, too, who I think's terrific. And of course, Elmore Leonard.....
ReplyDeleteAn abundance of riches! Probably too many....
DeleteI've not read a James Sallis that I liked and would like to try again. Any recs? Just don't mention DRIVE. But then again, I read it a long time ago. I should give it another go but I remember really disliking it.
ReplyDeleteKeishon, I've only read a couple so far.the non-mentionable being one of them. (I actually enjoyed it myself). The other was pre-2010 (I had to check my books on Goodreads) - his first Lew Griffin - The Long Legged Fly. I scored it a 4, but seem to remember it dragging a bit. Maybe wrong book to be reading at the time.
DeleteMaybe try CYPRESS GROVE - another series - and if you don't like it boot him into touch permanently.
I read quite a number of the Flashman books, and my son enjoyed them too (an easy way to learn some history) - the author also wrote a really splendid book about they way Hollywood portrays history (I must dig that out). other than that, there's not much for me in your tub this week....
ReplyDeleteJust Flashman then! Maybe next week....
DeleteSome interesting authors there. Elmore Leonard, of course, and Peter Corris. I have never read James W. Hall. Have you?
ReplyDeleteI love James W. Hall. He was one of my early US crime fiction finds. I've maybe read 5 or 6 of his early books, and still try and keep up with his latter ones (buying them at least) - I need to re-visit him (and a thousand other authors!)
DeleteI will keep that in mind if I see his books at the book sale. I know what you mean about the many authors you need to re-visit. My book shelves seem to be divided between authors that I have not read at all and authors I have read one or two books by and need to read more. So sad.
DeleteI'd like to think I can read all the books in my possession, but realistically that won't happen unless I give up on adding new, even freebies!
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