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.
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| Tub 71! |
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| James Patterson, Michael Simon, Thomas Harris, Koji Suzuki, Charles McCarry, |
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| Paul Christopher series book! |
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| Koji Suzuki! No idea what it's about. |
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| M. T. Anderson, John Macken, Frankie Dettori, D. B. Shan, |
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| Vince Flynn, Jesse Kellerman, Tom Bouman, Neal Asher, Patricia Highsmith, |
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| Tom Bouman! |
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| Blog favourite - Patricia Highsmith - haha! |
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| James Patterson, Stephen Jones, Jon Stock, Stephen M. Irwin, Jjames Patterson/Michael Ledwidge, |
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| Jon Stock |
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| Gregg Hurwitz, James Patterson, James Patterson/Michael Ledwidge, Sue Grafton, Jeff Abbott, |
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| Gregg Hurwitz |
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| Another Kinsey book from Sue Grafton! |
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| Eric Ambler x 2, Frank Herbert, James Patterson, Jeffrey Thomas, |
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| Eric Ambler - an author I have yet to try! |
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| Ditto above. |
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| George V. Higgins, Peter Robinson, Len Deighton, Graham Hurley, |
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| Len Deighton - Bernard Samson series book! |
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| Sebastian Faulks, Stephen King, Marcus Sedgwick, Stephen Smith, Koushun Takami, |
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| Japanese YA book? |
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| Charles Willeford, Tony O'Neill, Norman Mailer, Andrea Camilleri, Tony Hillerman, |
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| Tony O'Neill - Sick City! |
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| Charles Willeford - Autobiography! |
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| Stephen King, Quintin Jardine, Mitchell Smith, Anthony J. Quinn, |
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| Stieg Larsson, James Sallis, |
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| Keith Jeffrey edited Magazine - Bullet Issue 1 |
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| 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 |
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TITLE |
YEAR |
SERIES |
| ABBOTT |
JEFF |
TRUST ME |
2009 |
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| AMBLER |
ERIC |
JOURNEY INTO FEAR |
1940 |
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| AMBLER |
ERIC |
THE NIGHT-COMERS |
1956 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| JONES |
STEPHEN |
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE |
2010 |
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| KELLERMAN |
JESSE |
THE EXECUTOR |
2010 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| SMITH |
MITCHELL |
DAY-DREAMS |
1987 |
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| 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 |
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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. :)
ReplyDeleteJane 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!)
DeleteI'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).
ReplyDeleteI've not tried Kellerman Jnr. yet. Should be interesting!
DeleteI 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteTracy, I've not read any from either McCarry or Ambler yet......hangs head in shame!
DeleteCol, 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.
ReplyDeleteGlen, 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.
DeleteCol, 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteKing used to be a big favourite many years ago.
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.
ReplyDeleteElgin, 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!
DeleteThanks, 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.
DeleteGood luck tracking them down Elgin. I know what you mean. I do like Willeford when he's on form.
DeleteAmbler, Deighton and Grafton would be my choices from this list, you'd get a good month's reading from those three...
ReplyDeleteAmbler and Deighton probably more me than Kinsey, but hey I bought them, time to pay the piper and read some!
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