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[Turn]

I'm splitting time between Gardner's For Special Services, a Rolling Stones bio called Old Gods Almost Dead and the other day I just picked up Patrick MacNee's The Avengers and Me. Outside of that I have tons of magazines I never seem to get caught up on.

[Loomis]

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time " (exquisite).

Read it the other day on that little recommendation of yours, Jim. Very good indeed, although it palls a bit towards the end (just a bit, though). I gather it's up for "the UK's most prestigious children's book award" (http://news.bbc.co.u...rts/3672799.stm), which surprises me as - given the foul language with which it's liberally peppered - I didn't think it was, or was ever intended as, a children's book.

[Johnboy007]

I just finished reading Colonel Sun, and I am just about to finish Romeo and Juliet for school , then I read Great Expectations .

[Agent 76]

I'm about to start reading : The Da Vinci Code

and after this one...I plan on reading The Man from Barbarossa and The Facts of Death .

[JackChase007]

Just read an interesting adventure novel by the name of Vulcan's Forge by Jack DuBrul. It has a pretty good, interesting story, but an annoying protagonist. He has a series focused on that character, Philip Mercer. DuBrul's writing style is pretty good, and his stories are as well, but I don't really care for the Mercer character all that much. He's a know-it-all jerk, who somehow always knows more than the entire United States government, and can just so happen to do everything.

I'm currently reading The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell (the author of First Blood). It's the third of a trilogy, following the excellent spy novels The Brotherhood of the Rose and The Fraternity of the Stone. Morrell is, IMO, one of the best writers out there. He has a very regular basic formula for most of this more recent novels, but he still manages to keep each story fresh and interesting. After this, I'm probably going to read another Morrell novel (perhaps the novelization of Rambo: First Blood Part II), or another one of the DuBrul novels.

[SnakeEyes]

I'm currently reading this thread!

Seriously, i'm trying to find a book that sounds interesting that I haven't read. This thread has plenty.

[CommanderBond]

Im on FRWL right now.....when is bond going to show up?

[Agent 76]

Seriously, i'm trying to find a book that sounds interesting that I haven't read. This thread has plenty.

try the Harlan Coben's books...
these too for instance:

[Qwerty]

Im on FRWL right now.....when is bond going to show up?

I take it you've never read this novel before.

Bond shows up in roughly, 1/3 of the way into the story.

[Gabe Vieira]

I just finished "Rainbow Six" and "Without Remorse" for about the hundredth time, and I am now working on "The Cardinal of the Kermlin", for about the TWO hundredth time. Tom Clancy rocks.

[Bond111]

I just picked up YOLT again, it's pretty slow so far but I believe it will pick up soon.

After I finish that I may read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

[1q2w3e4r]

Re-reading Dark Winter by Andy Mcnab

[Jim]

Just finished The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin - pre-Revolutionary Russia James Bond/Sherlock Holmes

Fab. Highly recommended.

[MI-6 Director]

Currently reading the non-fiction book entitled 'Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and The Technology Used To Support It'

It's an enjoyable and interesting look at covert operations throughout history. The book's author is Dave Owen.

I want to read Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six' after I finish 'Hidden Secrets.'

Edited by MI-6 Director, 25 May 2004 - 07:06 PM.

[Qwerty]

I'm currently reading "Farewell, My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler. Quite good.

I don't know if anyone else reads or has read any of his books, but I finished Farewell... a few weeks ago. I'd heard from many reviews that this second book of his was much better than his first, but I think it's exactly the other way around, and was a bit let down. I'll move onto the third one, hope it's an improvement, or I don't know if I'll continue with Chandler.

Rather good though, to see how Fleming and Chandler appreciated each other's work.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Currently reading Prey, by Michael Crichton. Deals with a deadly swarm of nanocomputers. Great stuff. Very involving and suspenseful.

[freemo]

The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley

[Qwerty]

I'm reading Murder on the Orient Express.

[Johnboy007]

I'm still finishing up summer reading books.

Had to read Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden

Now I'm about halfway through Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, which I had to read for 8th Grade summer reading

[Qwerty]

I'm still finishing up summer reading books.

Had to read Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden

[trs007]

JUst finished Stella Rimington's "At Risk" and will now start the Bond/Blaise pastiche "Into the Volcano".

[Qwerty]

The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes

How was that Freemo?

[freemo]

I enjoyed it very much. Very suspenseful, very intriuging. For the unfamilar, it's about an older couple who take in a lodger who may or may not be the killer "The Avenger" (the story's version of Jack the Ripper). Top stuff.

Currently reading A Passage to India.

[Qwerty]

I enjoyed it very much. Very suspenseful, very intriuging. For the unfamilar, it's about an older couple who take in a lodger who may or may not be the killer "The Avenger" (the story's version of Jack the Ripper). Top stuff.

Very cool! I'd like to read that.

[Roebuck]

Just finished off Mikhail Bulgakov's ' The Master and Margarita', a comic fantasy in which the devil (and his talking cat) turn Stalin era Moscow into his personal playground. Staying with the fantasy theme, I'm starting Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' next.

My current book for dipping into at odd moments is Fi Glovers 'I am an Oil Tanker', a tour of the worlds quirkiest radio stations'

[Joyce Carrington]

I'm thinking of picking up a Raymond Chandler. Any titles anyone can recommend?

[Qwerty]

I'm thinking of picking up a Raymond Chandler. Any titles anyone can recommend?

I most recently did! Start with his first Joyce, "The Big Sleep" to see if you like him.

[Joyce Carrington]

Okay, I will. Thanks, Qwerty.

[Qwerty]

Sure thing. I kind of got less interested with his second book, but hopefully you'll like them.

[Joyce Carrington]

I'm on a break from writing myself and just thought I'd try some other thillers than Bond, see if I can learn stuff.