The Talking Balls Book Club

spionfox

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• Aug 25, 2016

• #1,261

FIF said:

The plots are so impossible in the logical world .............

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True, but reading books like that, well, it's escapism innit

 

Blaarev

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• Aug 25, 2016

• #1,262

spionfox said:

True, but reading books like that, well, it's escapism innit

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Yes. And who needs that after you stopped posting playlists

 

Robin127

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• Sep 7, 2016

• #1,263

"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing. These blokes were seriously tough.

 

FIF

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• Sep 7, 2016

• #1,264

spionfox said:

True, but reading books like that, well, it's escapism innit

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So I went back to Baldacci and read Zero day first of a new series about John Puller. Really enjoyed it even if the last few chapters shot off into the stratosphere.

Presently reading Every dead thing by John Connolly.

 

From Gradel to Grave

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• Sep 29, 2016

• #1,265

Just finished Eleanor Catton's Luminaries. Was very good. I understand BBC are making a drama from the novel.

I was kindly bought the Booker shortlist for my 40th birthday in 2014. Since my daughter has been born I haven't had as much time to read as I'd like and it's taken me until now to finish them.

 

FIF

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• Sep 30, 2016

• #1,266

Every dead thing was pretty good. Just finished Baldacci's The Forgotten - best of his I've read so far. Lee Child - Personal next up.

 

Robin127

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• Oct 1, 2016

• #1,267

Currently reading Bill Bryson's "A Walk In Woods." It's hilarious, I live in Appalachia so I can relate to a lot of it.

 

FIF

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• Oct 18, 2016

• #1,268

Just finished one of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels. It was okay. Having watched Tom Cruise play the lead in the movies I find it so hard to reconcile his character with the one in the books. Strange casting indeed.

 

Blaarev

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• Nov 12, 2016

• #1,269

 

spionfox

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• Nov 12, 2016

• #1,270

FIF said:

Just finished one of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels. It was okay. Having watched Tom Cruise play the lead in the movies I find it so hard to reconcile his character with the one in the books. Strange casting indeed.

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Indeed.

Reacher is well over 6 foot and a real tough guy. Cruise is just not Jack Reacher. I think Lee Child sold out a bit there.

 

FIF

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• Dec 13, 2016

• #1,271

Reading Esslemont's series of Malazan books. Erikson's were magnificent and complex.