Books - Anyone recommend some good Thrillers?
28 February 2007, 08:18 PM
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Books - Anyone recommend some good Thrillers?
Been reading Lee Childs Jack Reacher books now and they're getting a bit samey - tough guy loner helps poor helpless female in trouble with bad guys, so tried Any Mc Nab - Firewall - terrible, had a read of 3 of Dan Browns books - nothing great here either, and mostly pretty dire, 'Next' by Michael Crichton - worse than terrible (a talking monkey, parrot etc, couldnt get into it) and Tom Clancy's books are very hit and miss (Rainbow six was good)
Any recommendations of where to look next?
Neil
Any recommendations of where to look next?
Neil
28 February 2007, 08:34 PM
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Just read Cell by Stephen King, that was ok.
I liked the Jack Reacher books but after about 5 I could predict what was going to happen and wanted him to get a kicking.
I liked the Jack Reacher books but after about 5 I could predict what was going to happen and wanted him to get a kicking.
28 February 2007, 10:09 PM
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At the risk of sounding egoistical....try this thread....https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...ighlight=Books
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Pick up Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride, a cracking read with enough dark scots humour to be going on with. Then pick up Dying Light by the same author, again very good and highly entertaining.
Can't wait till he brings out the next one.
Can't wait till he brings out the next one.
01 March 2007, 10:51 AM
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Have a look here, on the official Scoobynet books thread 
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...225-books.html
I used to read thrillers only but have expanded my reading in recent years, try something different, I promise you will be happy you did.
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...225-books.html
I used to read thrillers only but have expanded my reading in recent years, try something different, I promise you will be happy you did.
01 March 2007, 10:53 AM
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lord of the rings
robert ludlums series bourne identity onwards
shankhill butchers
stone cold etc michael stone story
hezbollah born with a vengeance
osama i know by peter bergen the man who made osama famous well before 9/11 , his 2nd book on him, very very good i swear
robert ludlums series bourne identity onwards
shankhill butchers
stone cold etc michael stone story
hezbollah born with a vengeance
osama i know by peter bergen the man who made osama famous well before 9/11 , his 2nd book on him, very very good i swear
01 March 2007, 01:24 PM
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The Robert Ludlum books are formulaic and terrible (guy goes up against a system that turned against him, finds a girl along the way, fall in love at the end, etc), and contain lots of mistakes (paying with a £100 note in London, metal-bodied Corvettes...)
Tom Clancy has lost the plot these days.
I'd go with a previous suggestion: Ian Rankin's "Rebus" series. Some of the John LeCarre stuff is good (but depressing), particularly Absolute Friends and The Looking Glass War. Most of Henning Mankell's output is excellent (particularly One Step Behind, Firewall and Sidetracked).
Tom Clancy has lost the plot these days.
I'd go with a previous suggestion: Ian Rankin's "Rebus" series. Some of the John LeCarre stuff is good (but depressing), particularly Absolute Friends and The Looking Glass War. Most of Henning Mankell's output is excellent (particularly One Step Behind, Firewall and Sidetracked).
01 March 2007, 01:30 PM
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Best book ever in my view: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. (don't think much of his other books though).
Can't stand Rebus - so dreary.
Interested you thought Rainbow 6 was best of the Clancy Ryan/Clark books, I love all of these but thought Rainbow 6 was the least good.
Try Kathy Reichs if you like a bit of gore.
Sue Grafton starting from A is for Alibi if you like a gentle crime mystery.
Cheers, Diccy.
Can't stand Rebus - so dreary.
Interested you thought Rainbow 6 was best of the Clancy Ryan/Clark books, I love all of these but thought Rainbow 6 was the least good.
Try Kathy Reichs if you like a bit of gore.
Sue Grafton starting from A is for Alibi if you like a gentle crime mystery.
Cheers, Diccy.
01 March 2007, 01:53 PM
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At the risk of sounding egoistical....try this thread....https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...ighlight=Books
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At the risk of sounding egoistical....try this thread....https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby-...ighlight=Books
01 March 2007, 05:22 PM
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Best book ever in my view: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
Anyone else read any of the Christopher Brookmyre books?
Some good ones: www.brookmyre.co.uk :: Christopher Brookmyre's books
I've read most of them, and enjoyed them all.
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01 March 2007, 05:57 PM
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Yeah, I liked that one too.
Anyone else read any of the Christopher Brookmyre books?
Some good ones: www.brookmyre.co.uk :: Christopher Brookmyre's books
I've read most of them, and enjoyed them all.
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Anyone else read any of the Christopher Brookmyre books?
Some good ones: www.brookmyre.co.uk :: Christopher Brookmyre's books
I've read most of them, and enjoyed them all.
Alcazar
Can't remember which one it was but I nearly ended myself laughing when he went into the crime scene and found a freshly laid turd on the mantlepiece
01 March 2007, 06:03 PM
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I like "Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil". And "The Sacred Art of Stealing".
One of the best quotes I got from one of his books was the little Scottish kid learning that a double negative makes a positive, (I haven't got no sweets, etc). He then asks if there are any examples of a double positive making a negative, and is told "No".
His answer, "Aye, right" collapsed me.
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01 March 2007, 06:10 PM
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I laugh at some of the stuff in them, he's VERY anti government, be it Cons or Labia, much like me then
I like "Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil". And "The Sacred Art of Stealing".
One of the best quotes I got from one of his books was the little Scottish kid learning that a double negative makes a positive, (I haven't got no sweets, etc). He then asks if there are any examples of a double positive making a negative, and is told "No".
His answer, "Aye, right" collapsed me.
Alcazar
I like "Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil". And "The Sacred Art of Stealing".
One of the best quotes I got from one of his books was the little Scottish kid learning that a double negative makes a positive, (I haven't got no sweets, etc). He then asks if there are any examples of a double positive making a negative, and is told "No".
His answer, "Aye, right" collapsed me.
Alcazar
lol, I had heard that before, some story about a language lecturer teaching the meaning of double negatives, with the wee scottish guy poping up with the 'Aye Right'.
It is a belter though
01 March 2007, 11:38 PM
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