Melman Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 ^^ The Complaints is Ian Rankin's new book (came out in HB in Sept 2009) and due out in PB later this year I think. This is his new offering about another Edinburgh based copper after Rebus - Inspector Malcolm Fox who works in the 'Complaints & Conduct' dept, the unit who police the police - hence the title. It's good and bodes well for the future and proves there is life after Rebus ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 ^^ The process worked well enough for Michael Connolley and his Harry Bosch books. Introducing a character from "Internal Affairs" gave the series a new direction and a new set of story hooks which allowed the central character to be revitalised and re-introduced in later books. I hope it works out for Ian Rankin too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Just finished the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Wish I'd been a decade or so older, in order to have read them 'fresh' at first printing. Interesting to look back and see what a massive influence they've had on pop culture since...or is that what they want us to think? Kallisti! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 Currently on my second read of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I love this book, and would also recommend the film adaptation to anyone that hasn't seen it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 North Sea Pilot, 1949. Found in a second hand shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainlander Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, after seeing it recommended earlier in this thread. Quite bleak, but very gripping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 Finally got round to read A Child Called It, The Lost Boy & A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer. Saw the 3 in one volume on wed in one of the charity shops, just got the one chapter to go.Wow, sometimes you forget.I've seen some really messed up victims.But I've met some real survivors too.As a parent it really makes me think.It makes me regret when I should have said something.But most of all it makes me wish there were more foster parents out there.I know even up here there's a REAL shortage of foster parents. There are so many kids out there that never know a stable, loving home, what chance does that give their kids?At least as Pelzer says himself he did come to have a "real Mom and Dad" through the fostering system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattie Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Have just finished Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell. I always thought the otter was native. Didn't realise it came from Iraq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Now reading Stephen King "Under the Dome". A few chapters in and it hasn't grabbed me as yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Something different!. "Dog eat Dog" by Niq Mhlongo. About life in South Africa at the time of the first free elections written from the viewpoint of a black university student. Not an easy read but worth the effort. And being a Lerwick Library book it can be read for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Iain M Banks' 'Against a Dark Background' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 ^^^ Brilliant book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainlander Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Spoiler Alert! Recently finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, and have just read elsewhere that many people think the end is a hallucination. Does anyone else think that? I must admit I had just accepted it as written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. I begged my mother to buy it for me in my teens purely on the grounds that it was named after a Beatles song but I've only just gotten to reading it now And for uni: 'The Madman of Freedom Square' by Hassan BlasimThe Diary of Anne Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 'Amphigorey' and 'Amphigorey Too' as a bit of light relief before wading back into 'Crime and Punishment'. Edward Gorey is just what you need after drying up on Dostoyefsky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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