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Mouseytongue
Mouseytongue
Apr 2021
1:34pm, 10 Apr 2021
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It's true you only have to read one to have read them all, and Persuader is as good as any.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Apr 2021
1:35pm, 10 Apr 2021
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As “good” as any? Ok, definitely not reading any more. :-)
Mouseytongue
Mouseytongue
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Mouseytongue
:-)
Night-owl
Night-owl
Apr 2021
1:44pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Night-owl
The Visitor was my first Reacher
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Apr 2021
1:45pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Little Nemo
I liked the one where he ended up somewhere ridiculously cold. Think he was protecting a witness?
Mouseytongue
Mouseytongue
Apr 2021
2:19pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Mouseytongue
61 Hours?
GregP
GregP
Apr 2021
2:41pm, 10 Apr 2021
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GregP
61 hours is the Dakota one.

Persuader is unusual in it's a first-person one.

Yes they are formulaic, but they are very well done, and by the standards of the genre, very well written. I love Baldacci but he's a story teller and one has to try and ignore the writing and enjoy the story. No such problem with Child.

Top tip - never try and read Baldacchi or, worse yet, Patterson directly after Child.

Right, suppose I'd better catch up with whatever smugly clever self important moribund claptrap the book club are serving up this month.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Apr 2021
3:07pm, 10 Apr 2021
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I once read The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum. Absolute codswallop. But I do like to try these things. I even did Dan Brown.

There have been some intelligent, well-written, inspiring masterpieces on both the OBG thread lately.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Apr 2021
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Isn't it Ludlum whose titles all follow that pattern:

The Scunthorpe Conundrum
The Mablethorpe Portfolio
The Skegness Files
The Sleaford Dilemma
etc

I don't think they're all as Lincolnshire-based as I've implied.
Mouseytongue
Mouseytongue
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3:52pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Mouseytongue
My particular favourite - The Market Rasen Vision

market-rasen.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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