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[Paper Plane]

Fairly sure I read this 50 or so years ago but nothing is coming back to me yet.

steve

 

[Dr Watson]

Finished these

Now onto Wabi Sabi...

 

[Umina_Shaver]

 

[Tonyschin]

Just Finished Book 9

Starting book 10

 

[Tonyschin]

I've downloaded the next set, so:-
Onto book #11

The reverse journey from " the far side of the world" back to Blighty and Jack's waiting financial troubles and Stephens traitor

 

[Tonyschin]

I wasn't feeling to well last couple of days so got cabined up with my Kindle.
Book 11 done, they call him Lucky Jack although I am not sure why , he gets himself into some scrapes. The traitor is just about to be ...........

There are like the old Sat morning picture house "Flash Gordon" series, tune in next week type endings. I did enjoy that one.

Onto book #12 (not sleeping)

Just a little Cruise.

 

[Paper Plane]

Absolutely delightful murder mystery spliced with laugh out loud humour. Can’t understand why the author isn’t more widely known and appreciated. Came to him after hearing two of his books were adapted on Radio 4 Extra.

steve

 

[Tonyschin]

Finished #12 at a real leisurely pace.
Onto Book #13

 

[Paper Plane]

Bonkers but an absolute delight. Heartily recommended!

steve

 

[Mark12]

I’m not the most enthusiastic reader - I think reluctant reader is a good fit - but I’m trying hard to read more. I enjoy history and have been recommended these easy reads by a friend. There seems to be a fair series worth. Am enjoying so far.

 

[Chris]

No photo because it’s on my Kindle but The Stand by Stephen King. I’ve not read it for over ten years and am really enjoying it.

 

[Shaun2]

Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols".

 

[Vacumatic]

Some good ideas for future reads, thanks for the posts.


Does anyone read the classics? About 20 years ago I started collecting early editions of Jane Austen, this meant buying a modern reprint at the same time because some of these leather bound books were still wrapped in the Victorian printers paper and inside a slip case, so I was buying a £1 paperback because I didn't want to be the first to unwrap the book, crackers!

These early Jane Austen novels went missing, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, been missing for almost five years, started to question who might have been in the house. Big relief today when I found them inside a box and under a bed! No idea how they got there, I had to lift the bed up to find them.

 

[Vacumatic]

No photo because it’s on my Kindle but The Stand by Stephen King. I’ve not read it for over ten years and am really enjoying it.

I read The Stand when it came out, a gripping story of survivors if I remember right, Trashcan Man and so on.

Same with The Shining, divided many people, for me it was a real page turner, my partner found it a real 'take it or leave it' book., same division of interest in some friends.

This must have been a golden era for Stephen King, I was living in London, being pre-Kindle I looked round the Tube carriage and everyone was reading Carrie or Christine or the Shining. A few years later it was Garrison Keillor and a few years after that it was JK Rowling, sometimes with a plain white dust jacket to avoid detection.

 

[Chris]

I read The Stand when it came out, a gripping story of survivors if I remember right, Trashcan Man and so on.

Same with The Shining, divided many people, for me it was a real page turner, my partner found it a real 'take it or leave it' book., same division of interest in some friends.

This must have been a golden era for Stephen King, I was living in London, being pre-Kindle I looked round the Tube carriage and everyone was reading Carrie or Christine or the Shining. A few years later it was Garrison Keillor and a few years after that it was JK Rowling, sometimes with a plain white dust jacket to avoid detection.

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It's one of my all-time favourite books. I like a lot of King's work but mostly his early to mid stuff, including the three you mentioned. I also like Dean Koontz and Richard Laymon but, IMO, King at his peak is aptly named.