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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 140147 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #90 - Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:46pm Emma wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:38pm: now now GP.. ain't that old.. still read REAL BOOKS w/o reading glasses.. Yes, I'm sure you do. I was referring to our intoxicated little friend, Soren.
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Reply #91 - Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:48pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:36pm:

Soren wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:24pm:

What are you currently reading?

Ian Rankin's Beggars Baquet.

Roald Dahl's Switch Bitch.

Tolstoy's Twenty Three Tales.

Any other audio books on your list?

Yes, plenty.
I love listening to audio books when I go for a bike ride before work. Or when driving to and from the beach with the kids (Dahl, Rankin). Or when going for a bike ride after work.

I have a a few favourite podcasts too.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25031 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #92 - Jan 12^th, 2014 at 11:35pm Started reading Anna Karenina the other night, after putting it off for a while. Thinking that it would be a bit of a girly book. Turns out to be a good book, and a real page turner. Still got 800 out of 850 pages to go.
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #93 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 5:48am 'The Vanished Man' by Jeffery Deaver.
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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #94 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 8:14pm another fave Herb have read all the J Deaver books I could get my hands on, and have in a request at the local library for the next. Is it Deaver who has written the new James Bond novels...?? Hmmm..?
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Reply #95 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 9:13pm

Soren wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:04pm:

They used to say that about Abbott -dreadful, unelectable, just way too conservative, nobody would ever vote for him, who does he think he is, totally unelectable - 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, whassis then?

but they didn't vote him in .... the voted labor out. There is a difference. Abbott has got to have had the worst numbers of anybody to win an election

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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #96 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 9:18pm ??? wrong topic?
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brumbie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 994 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #97 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 10:02pm Have finally got hold of Michael Connelly's new one 'The Gods of Guilt' Totally absorbing.Up to his best on this guys.
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Reply #98 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 10:13pm

John Smith wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 9:13pm:

Soren wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:04pm:

They used to say that about Abbott -dreadful, unelectable, just way too conservative, nobody would ever vote for him, who does he think he is, totally unelectable - 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, whassis then?

but they didn't vote him in .... the voted labor out. There is a difference. Abbott has got to have had the worst numbers of anybody to win an election

Thank you. You may now bugger orf.

Thank you.

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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #99 - Jan 13^th, 2014 at 10:17pm good one brumbie... I've read them all as well... always look forward to a new Connelly.
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Reply #100 - Jan 14^th, 2014 at 7:12am

Emma wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 8:14pm:

another fave Herb

have read all the J Deaver books I could get my hands on, and have in a request at the local library for the next.

Is it Deaver who has written the new James Bond novels...??
Hmmm..?

I'm finding these Jeffery Deaver books a little irritating, to be honest.

The 'hero' is a quadriplegic 'criminalist' ~ fercrissake ~ flat on his back on a gurney with half a dozen able-bodied police detectives crowded around him feeding him bits of information about a serial killer. That's how it is in every book.

Over the period of each book he solves these serial killer cases.

Jesus ... don't I have any pride reading this kind of trash? Apparently not.

It's utterly pathetic, and to be honest I feel like I'd like to roll him under a bus.

I buy my books at Opportunity Shops for a $1 or so, and that explains why my home library is full of pot boilers and trailer trash penny dreadfuls.

Grin

Wilbur Smith. I tried reading one of his books and found the first two chapters badly written and downright boring.

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Reply #101 - Jan 14^th, 2014 at 10:48pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 7:12am:

Emma wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 8:14pm:

another fave Herb

have read all the J Deaver books I could get my hands on, and have in a request at the local library for the next.

Is it Deaver who has written the new James Bond novels...??
Hmmm..?

I'm finding these Jeffery Deaver books a little irritating, to be honest.

The 'hero' is a quadriplegic 'criminalist' ~ fercrissake ~ flat on his back on a gurney with half a dozen able-bodied police detectives crowded around him feeding him bits of information about a serial killer. That's how it is in every book.

Over the period of each book he solves these serial killer cases.

Jesus ... don't I have any pride reading this kind of trash? Apparently not.

It's utterly pathetic, and to be honest I feel like I'd like to roll him under a bus.

I buy my books at Opportunity Shops for a $1 or so, and that explains why my home library is full of pot boilers and trailer trash penny dreadfuls.

Grin

Wilbur Smith. I tried reading one of his books and found the first two chapters badly written and downright boring.

Herb? The character you refer to is um mm Lincoln Rhyme..?? something like that. Has been made into a movie

BUT
that is only one of Deaver's characters. And I find them a bit tiresome, so I stick with his other novels.

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Reply #102 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 9:12am

Soren wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 10:13pm:

John Smith wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 9:13pm:

Soren wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 8:04pm:

They used to say that about Abbott -dreadful, unelectable, just way too conservative, nobody would ever vote for him, who does he think he is, totally unelectable - 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, whassis then?

but they didn't vote him in .... the voted labor out. There is a difference. Abbott has got to have had the worst numbers of anybody to win an election

Thank you. You may now bugger orf.

Thank you.

not a fan of facts?

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Reply #103 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 10:37am

Emma wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 10:48pm:

Herb? The character you refer to is um mm Lincoln Rhyme..?? something like that. Has been made into a movie

BUT
that is only one of Deaver's characters. And I find them a bit tiresome, so I stick with his other novels.

My apologies, Emma. I didn't mean to put you down with my criticism of this paralysed crime-solver. You should see some of the trash I've read over the years.

It was Denzel Washington who played 'Lincoln Rhyme' in 'The Bone Collector' ~ a story about a homosexual serial killer. Tongue

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"What would people here think about a writer that had a quadriplegic as
>sleuth? Is that uniqueness owned by Jeffrey Deaver and his creation?
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I'd think that even Deaver might have doubts about the wisdom of his
having taken that road. It must be hell dreaming up even
half-plausible new plots every year or so.

What turned me off the Rhyme books was the inherent improbability of
the whole concept - I simply found it impossible to suspend my
disbelief after the first one or two. There were other issues - his
faithful sidekick (can't recall her name) was simply unbelievable in
this modern day and age, if only because no modern woman would demean
herself by putting up with the crap he kept handing her.

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Secondly, the technology needed to make communications reliable, even if possible, would be far to complex to be practicable. in what is, or was, essentally a one-person operation.

Only a masochist would take on a task like that, I think. I'd be very
surprised if Deaver didn't quickly come to regret having gone down
that track, no matter how popular the books became".

Mique

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 75402 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #104 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 11:15am What are you currently reading? What are you currently reading, on the ozpolitic forum .... riveting stuff.
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