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got virtually everything by Clive cussler to date apart from his fact based stuff , and everything by Scott mariani even got a signed pre-edition one from him . that gives me around 100 books to go back over as the need takes me
 
got virtually everything by Clive cussler to date apart from his fact based stuff , and everything by Scott mariani even got a signed pre-edition one from him . that gives me around 100 books to go back over as the need takes me

I too like the Ben Hope books by Scot Mariani and still have the latest one to read on the ipad haven't read any of the vampire one's he writes
 
Also listened to Dangerous to Know (Chronicles of Breed, book 1) by K.T.Davies. Just started book 2 but am reading on the kindle.

Finished the 3 books, very enjoyable an would thoroughly recommend. Just started How to be Dead (book1) which looks quite fun albeit that it's quite short.

On a side note, I cannot seem to get into American books these days. Is it me or are they churning out so much crap these days that it's smothering anything decent!
 
Eurofirefighter 2
Have you eaten Grandma?

I am reading one whilst at work over lunch, and the other at home.
 
Peter James - Absolute Proof
 
Bomber Command - Max Hastings
The Secret Barrister - Author not disclosed
 
Buffy the vampire slayer, season 10 library editions. Christmas gifts :D
 
Currently reading The Undead by RR Haywood, thoroughly enjoying it.
 
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brien - the final of the Aubrey/Maturin series (from which Master & Commander was made).
 
The Power of Nunchi and Rebel Ideas, just finished The Chimp Paradox.
 
The Tunnel by Eric Williams, a sequel to The Wooden Horse. Any one interested in military history should try The Forgotten Voices series, anything to do with both world wars has me hooked.
 
The Butchering Art - Lindsey Fitzharris. Covers the development of antiseptics in surgery during the C19th, with some insights about Victorian hospitals, doctor training, anesthesia and a couple of other things. I live in Edinburgh and quite of lot of developments took place here, in buildings that are still in use for various purposes.

In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead - James Lee Burke.
 
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brien - the final of the Aubrey/Maturin series (from which Master & Commander was made).

I thoroughly enjoyed all twenty of those. I may have to read them again sometime. :)
 
I thoroughly enjoyed all twenty of those. I may have to read them again sometime. :)
I struggled through the first one Master and commander I think it was called. Put me off the rest a little bit, shame as I fancied the series. I find the Sharpe series easier to engage with.

Just started Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L Beach.
 
I struggled through the first one Master and commander I think it was called. Put me off the rest a little bit, shame as I fancied the series. I find the Sharpe series easier to engage with.

Just started Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L Beach.
Yes, they can be a bit of a struggle because of the language used - they're written in the English of the day, with various forays into mainly Latin, but that's really what makes them so authentic. Sharpe (and come to that C.S. Forrester's Hornblower are more readable but they're all continuous action when in reality there would be months of work and routine for every hour of actual action..
 
Yes, they can be a bit of a struggle because of the language used - they're written in the English of the day, with various forays into mainly Latin, but that's really what makes them so authentic.

That's mostly why I liked them. Although it was a good story; it was the skill of the story teller that did it for me. (y)
 
I'm currently re-reading Nigel Crawthorne's "Steel Fist: Tank Warfare 1939-45". It gives the German view of the Panzer war, warts and all. It also shows how the Nazis and the Wehrmacht interacted and the general distrust in which the professional military held their National Socialist "colleagues".
 
I'm currently re-reading Nigel Crawthorne's "Steel Fist: Tank Warfare 1939-45". It gives the German view of the Panzer war, warts and all. It also shows how the Nazis and the Wehrmacht interacted and the general distrust in which the professional military held their National Socialist "colleagues".
Have you read The Great German Escape by Charles Whiting? It is an account of the Germans in POW camps in Britain and how they planned a mass escape to take London in the last few months of the war. A different perspective and Eden Camp in Yorkshire is now a museum, worth a visit!
 
I've just started reading Andrew Hough's "Buller" series - Royal Navy from 1860's onwards. A good start (5 books in the series)
 
I've just started his latest one; Tombland. I thoroughly enjoyed all the rest. :D
I waded through it a few months back. I liked all the previous Shardlake books but thought this one was far too long winded. I didn’t enjoy it that much and kept thinking “will you just get on with it!”. I believe the author had been very ill before writing this one, maybe that has affected his skills?

I’ve just started the Julius Caesar series by Conn Iggulden. So far it’s excellent. I liked his Wars of the Roses series too, he has a great way of putting historical facts into an easily readable style.
 
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I’ve just started the Julius Caesar series by Conn Iggulden. So far it’s excellent. I liked his Wars of the Roses series too, he has a great way of putting historical facts into an easily readable style.

I enjoyed both of those - very good reads. (y)
 
Just finished reading Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott. A large part of his novels are written in dialect, and after reading several of his books I still have no idea what "unco' means.

In Scots, usually 'very' or 'extremely'.
 
Currently reading The Undead by RR Haywood, thoroughly enjoying it.

And still reading it. Finished "The first seven days" which was 800 pages and am half way through "The second week" which is 2,600 pages!! :oops: :$

Still enjoying it but some of the typos grammatical errors are making me wince so a distinct lack of proof reading. Not spoiling it for me though.

I’ve got that in my Audible wish list.

Have you started it yet?
 
And still reading it. Finished "The first seven days" which was 800 pages and am half way through "The second week" which is 2,600 pages!! :oops: :$

Still enjoying it but some of the typos grammatical errors are making me wince so a distinct lack of proof reading. Not spoiling it for me though.



Have you started it yet?

It’s still in my wish list. The only ones I’ve listened to by him are the Extracted series.
I will get round to The Undead.
 
I’m reading Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. It’s the story of a young US guy in the 60s who desperately wants to learn to fly helicopters, so he signs up to the US forces..... just in time to be trained and sent to the Vietnam war. Very engaging story, well written and one of the best war biographies I’ve read.
 
Dregs, Jorn Lier Horst Another great Nordic crime writer
 
I’m reading Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. It’s the story of a young US guy in the 60s who desperately wants to learn to fly helicopters, so he signs up to the US forces..... just in time to be trained and sent to the Vietnam war. Very engaging story, well written and one of the best war biographies I’ve read.

I agree. Try 365 Days (Ronald Glasser) if you're interested in the Vietnam War. The author was a US Army doctor based in Japan, and wrote about his experiences with the wounded and dying.
 
Mudlarking --Lara Maiklem

An account of the hunt for and finds along the River Thames muddy foreshore
 
Recently finished Leviathan Wakes, pretty good. The first book in The Expanse series.
Now on The Cruel Sea and it's starting to pick up.
 
I agree. Try 365 Days (Ronald Glasser) if you're interested in the Vietnam War. The author was a US Army doctor based in Japan, and wrote about his experiences with the wounded and dying.
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out. I’ve got Max Hastings’ history of the Vietnam War in my to-read pile too. Considering it was all happening when I was in my teens I really don’t know an awful lot about it, apart from what I’ve seen in films.
 
James Lee Burke is one of my favourite authors in this genre, and the Dave Robicheaux series is probably his best. I mean, anyone who can come up with a title like 'In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead' just has to be worth reading!

FWIW, Burke has a daughter called Alafair, and gives Robicheaux's adopted daughter the same name.
 
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