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Have you read the Mick Herron Jackson Lamb/Slough House series? Halfway through the first - Slow Horses - and I'm quite keen. They're about a bunch of MI5 spooks who've all fúcked up and been exiled to a dingy office where they aren't allowed to run cases.
Sounds riveting, B :yawn:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I listened to the first one and... quite enjoyed it, but haven't yet tried any more. ty for the recommendation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'm told the second, Dead Lions, is the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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Originally Posted by Burney
No, you’d like them, too, h. Indeed the hero is a grotesque, fat, uncouth man who belches and farts all the time. Just your sort of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Just tried my first ever Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Lord spare me I had to quit after chapter 6 - just couldn't care about any of the characters and the tendency to spend three paragraphs describing a farkin gatepost or summat!Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'd not give you tuppence for Hardy, tbh. Depressive, tedious stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
I love Hardy. Try The Mayor of Casterbridge. A proper racy read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Oh, yes. That's alright. His best by miles, certainly. Still a bit grim, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I was developing a theory that literature written before the advent of film lacked the craft of evocative prose and the arrival of cinema for everyone forced writers to up their game and increase the pace beyond the soporific ramblings in this particular example[Woodlanders]. Then I realised it was tosh because Dickens puts you right there in the action as convincingly as watching a movie. Hardy was just a droney old cund.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I will c . I possibly alighted on a poor choice for an introduction to his work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Far From The Madding Crowd's ok as well. That Bathsheba bint would get i9n, nae bother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
I suspect he's a tedious load of auld shyte, Herbs. I had to read The Trumpet Major as a yoot. Total load of boring ballix. I suggest trying Theo Walcott's oeuvre instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Oh Christ that little twát hasn't written a biography has he. "Fast and Useless"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
A series of children's books called things like "TJ and the payrise".Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
I am currently three quarters the way through A Gentleman in Moscow.Literally **** all has happened so far but I must say it is beautifully written. I can thoroughly recommend it.
It’s a lovely, lovely book.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
I was going to bin it after a chapter or two due to the slow pace but then quickly realised that is the genius of it.The demise of manners Sir C :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C