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StevieRay wrote:Just finished this:
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Terrific story with layers of complexity, brilliant character development, suspense, etc. This crafty spy novel takes place in 30's & 40's Europe: and, the really good news is this author has ten more in the same genre.... I'm hooked.


If you like Alan Furst, in addition to reading everything of his you can find (i've currently got The Paris Drop out of the library), you should check out Charles McCarry's Paul Christopher books. There are about 4 of them not sure of the exact number. They are terrific, and also a damn sight better than his non Christopher books.
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finally put this down. good read but, didn't finish the last chapter. definitely drove the message home, but the reduncany lost me in the end. i'd give it 3.9 stars out of 5.

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looks like a fine comedy. or satire maybe?
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Just picked up Patricia Cornwell-Book of the Dead!!! Nice light reading for the commute
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A few recently completed:

The Big Short by Michael Lewis - excellent as usual. Should be required reading for all members of Congress and the people who vote for or against them.

The 1st 2 Harry Potter novels - it's about time, i'd say.

The Concrete Blonde and The Black Ice by Michael Connelly - Can't go wrong re-reading classics like that.

Murder in the Marais by Cara Black - New to me, a potentially interesting series set in Paris. First one was ok, but great atmosphere/local color featuring places in i know really well, which is always fun

61 Hours by Lee Child - the new Reacher book, very good, just below the top ones, w/ a shocking (at least to me) conclusion.

Forget if i previously mentioned Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. Very nice first effort, very enjoyable not too cute 11 yr old detective in post war Britain.
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beantownbubba wrote:A few recently completed:
61 Hours by Lee Child - the new Reacher book, very good, just below the top ones, w/ a shocking (at least to me) conclusion.



I tried read "Thunder Head" but I could not get past the first chapter, it was quite the snoozer for me. Has he improved since then?

Though I have devouerd all of the Preston/Child "Agent Pendergast" books with relish!!!! So good, could not put it down!!!!
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The Black Canary wrote:
beantownbubba wrote:A few recently completed:
61 Hours by Lee Child - the new Reacher book, very good, just below the top ones, w/ a shocking (at least to me) conclusion.



I tried read "Thunder Head" but I could not get past the first chapter, it was quite the snoozer for me. Has he improved since then?

Though I have devouerd all of the Preston/Child "Agent Pendergast" books with relish!!!! So good, could not put it down!!!!


Different author entirely. Don't know the one you're talking about.
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I think she means Lincoln Child.
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Hope to finish this weekend. Great story. Hard to believe at points.

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The Paris Drop - an early Alan Furst novel, not as good as his classics, but still pretty good and some absolutely great moments/scenes. Played a little bit too close to farce at times for my taste, but like i said, still pretty good. And one of the main characters came from the neighborhood where i grew up, and i'm pretty sure there aren't too many fictional characters i can say that about, so that was pretty damn cool :)
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The Dome by Stephen King....it was really good but so fucking long. I don't read alot what with fishing and all so it took me since late May to finish just now.

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Chabby wrote:The Dome by Stephen King....it was really good but so fucking long. I don't read alot what with fishing and all so it took me since late May to finish just now.


I'd think u could do just a little better w/ 24 hours of daylight!
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This one's for you, BC: Murder at the Portland Variety by MJ Zellnick. Set in the 1890's in Portland, OR. Excellent first effort and I know she's got at least one more that i plan to read soon.

Drive by James Sallis. I 'spect this one's for you, Rev Matt. Either a long short story or a short novella, beautifully written in a modern update of the LA hard boiled noir tradition. I'll be checking out more of Mr. Sallis's work as well.

Zigzag by Noel Hynde. OK thriller, nothing special, but I liked the protagonist/hero.
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This one's for you, BC: Murder at the Portland Variety by MJ Zellnick. Set in the 1890's in Portland, OR. Excellent first effort and I know she's got at least one more that i plan to read soon.


Thank you BTB, I am just finishing up "Book of the Dead" I do so like Doctor Scarpetta and her merry band of lunatics, excentrics and out-right on the edge people on her team. Always a good read.
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This looks a good read, how goes it?
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Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
Clams wrote:Currently in the middle of this...
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This looks a good read, how goes it?

Eh, but the TV show is better
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Trying to get into "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman, but I am just not feeling it, the writing style is very much like, what's his name Vachoon somebody!!!! Every other paragraph is in another country, town, 5 different new peeps. Just not in the mood to try and read a book that requires me to keep crib notes!!! UGH

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[quote="The Black Canary"]This one's for you, BC: Murder at the Portland Variety by MJ Zellnick. Set in the 1890's in Portland, OR. Excellent first effort and I know she's got at least one more that i plan to read soon.

Hey BigDaddy, I have been trying to locate this but no one seems to have it any suggestions for stores that may carry it?
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Just started reading Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables".

1300 pages of dense prose is going to be a beast to get through.
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The Black Canary wrote:
The Black Canary wrote:This one's for you, BC: Murder at the Portland Variety by MJ Zellnick. Set in the 1890's in Portland, OR. Excellent first effort and I know she's got at least one more that i plan to read soon.

Hey BigDaddy, I have been trying to locate this but no one seems to have it any suggestions for stores that may carry it?


I got it at the library.
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beantownbubba wrote:
The Black Canary wrote:
The Black Canary wrote:This one's for you, BC: Murder at the Portland Variety by MJ Zellnick. Set in the 1890's in Portland, OR. Excellent first effort and I know she's got at least one more that i plan to read soon.

Hey BigDaddy, I have been trying to locate this but no one seems to have it any suggestions for stores that may carry it?


I got it at the library.

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The Black Canary wrote:
beantownbubba wrote:Hey BigDaddy, I have been trying to locate this but no one seems to have it any suggestions for stores that may carry it?


I got it at the library.[/quote]
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or Alibris.

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=B&keyword=Murder+at+the+Portland+Variety&hs.x=8&hs.y=21&hs=Submit
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Alan Furst is, of course, the MAN. Chalk up 2 more notches on his belt: Spies of the Balkans and Kingdom of Shadows

Murder in Belleville by Cara Black. Feh! Miserable followup to promising first novel. Not even the Paris locale could save this mishmash of a confusing ultimately pointless unbelievable plot and cardboard characters. One of those books where u resent the author for wasting your time.
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The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

"And every one of them words rang true
And burned like burning coal
Pouring off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you"

An extraordinary book. A little hard to follow at times, but just go w/ it. Most highly recommended.
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Thursday Legends by Quintin Jardine - solid entry in this excellent series about a Scottish cop.

The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds - Barely passable thriller in the Dan Brown mold, which certainly needs to be broken and thrown away by now.

The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst - the master does it again. He is just SOOOO good, an absolute pleasure to read. If you're not careful, he can make u yearn for a world that was mostly horrible and abysmal, which is a pretty neat trick :)
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