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    As was expected, extremely reminiscent of Deaver and Patterson but set in Scotland.
    Copper, hard as nails (former SAS) a broken marriage and a daughter he loves but rarely gets to see, throw in the new love interest and you have the whole chebang.

    The perfect scenario for a nutter with a grudge to take advantage of poor old Rebus.

    A decent book, as I say it is exactly as was expected but I quite enjoyed it anyway, I've got another 9 in the series to get through but I'm pretty sure I'll lose a helluva lot of interest before getting that far into them.



    Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic.

    "Her greatest book ...at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum...Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go". (Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch).

    Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into the safe, Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the remaining family. This Penguin edition includes an afterword by the acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates
    A fantastic book, Merricat is a cracking character, an 18 year old childlike girl with a quirky sense of humour, an overactive imagination and a morbid dark side.
    She regularly has little fantasies about seeing people die in agony but it is done in such a childlike way that it hardly seems threatening.

    Agoraphobia, claustrophobia and a rather loyal cat all play a part in the story.

    Great book I really enjoyed it.

    I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to read next, I'll decide on that tomorrow

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    Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction.

    "Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with—the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power—the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." —Thomas Pynchon
    I started this yesterday, I've mentioned before that I love things from this sort of era so I'm really looking forward to this one.
    I bought it ages ago but I'm only just getting around to reading it, it's quite a big ol book as well so I reckon it may take me some time to get it finished.

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    Oh man that was a fucking brilliant book, took ages to get going because you are battered with a seemingly endless list of names and characters but once you hit the halfway mark it really kicks in

    the residents of Warlock form a citizens committee and bring in Blaisdell who is a famous gun toting lawman (basically Wyatt Earp with a different name), he is charged with sorting out the San Pabloites who are constantly causing trouble and spreading fear. Blaisdell soon realises that regardless of his actions (or even because of them) it is impossible for him to remain the hero of the town.

    Whilst all of this is going on you have Gannon, he used to run with those from San Pablo but guild has got the better of him, in order to try and rid himself of past deeds he signs up to be the deputy sheriff, his approach is slow and not always popular but he soon becomes seen as someone who can be trusted to make the correct (if not always popular) decisions.

    All in all a fucking great book

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    oh and I started this yesterday, I'm about half way through it now



    A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind ...

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    You read a lot Batman, as much as smashup watches films.

    I do not know how you make the time but glad you do as you must enjoy it.
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    started on this one this morning



    Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness.

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    Birds Nest was alright, not as good as Shirley Jackson's other books that I have read but it was an enjoyable enough read.

    It could have been quite sinister but I ended up looking at it in a more comedic sort of way, I dont think that is what was intended but hey ho

    anyway I'm just about to get started on this



    New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer – The Axeman – stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him…

    Though every citizen of the ‘Big Easy’ thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, Detective Lieutenant Michael Talbot, heading up the official investigation, is struggling to find leads. But Michael has a grave secret – and if he doesn’t find himself on the right track fast – it could be exposed…

    Former detective Luca d’Andrea has spent the last six years in Angola state penitentiary, after Michael, his protégée, blew the whistle on his corrupt behaviour. Now a newly freed man, Luca finds himself working with the mafia, whose need to solve the mystery of the Axeman is every bit as urgent as the authorities’.

    Meanwhile, Ida is a secretary at the Pinkerton Detective Agency.Obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and dreaming of a better life, Ida stumbles across a clue which lures her and her trumpet-playing friend, Lewis ‘Louis’ Armstrong, to the case and into terrible danger…

    As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer’s identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city…

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    Just finished this, I've really slacked off with my reading just lately, I think that with the threat of redundancy and other shit at work I had a lot of things on my mind and I didn't even realize it, anyway I just haven't been in the mindset to do any reading, I blasted through the last 125 pages of this today.

    Decent book, I really enjoyed the setting and the location of the book but the characters were just middle of the road and I didn't really feel anything for any of them, they were all just pretty cliched, I reckon that if I would have been in the mood to get it read in a few days I may have enjoyed it more but the fact that it has took me 5 weeks annoyed me.

    Anyway I'm moving onto this next



    Will the past become our future? Is humankind destined to repeat the events that occurred on another planet, far away from Earth? Zecharia Sitchin's bestselling series The Earth Chronicles provided humanity's side of the story concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, "those who from heaven to earth came." In The Lost Book of Enki we now view this saga from the perspective of Lord Enki, an Anunnaki leader revered in antiquity as a god, who tells the story of these extraterrestrials' arrival on Earth from the planet Nibiru.

    In his previous works Sitchin compiled the complete story of the Anunnaki's impact on human civilization from fragments scattered throughout Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Canaanite, and Hebrew sources. Missing from these accounts, however, was the perspective of the Anunnaki themselves. What was life like on their own planet? What motives propelled them to settle on Earth - and what drove them from their new home? Convinced of the existence of an actual autobiography of Enki - a lost book that held the answers to these questions - the author began his search for evidence. Through exhaustive research of primary sources, and using actual discovered portions of the ancient text as "scaffolding," he has here re-created the memoirs of Enki, the leader of these first "astronauts." What takes shape is the story that begins on another world, a story of mounting tensions, survival dangers and royal succession rivalries, and sophisticated scientific knowledge concerning human origins that is only today being confirmed. An epic tale of gods and men unfolds that parallels the Bible and may challenge every assumption we hold about our past and our future.

    An eminent Orientalist and Biblical scholar, Zecharia Sitchin is distinquished by his ability to read Sumerian clay tablets and other ancient texts. He is a graduate of the University of London and worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years.
    I've been delving into the history of the Sumerians and it's fucking fascinating, how they knew the shit they did and how fast their culture evolved is unfathomable.

    It's well worth looking into the Anunnaki and the planet Niburu if you are bored and fancy wasting a few hours.

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    @Batman #bukkakevolunteer I'm surprised you are such an avid reader of deep material. I figured you for a drunken louse who spends his time trying to screw people who buy insurance. Aka a member of the zog

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    Broke out some old text books more recent. Picked up a couple on training and canine behavior, The Other end of the Leash. Honestly lately my attention span is shat when it comes to books. Spent last weekend picking up the old mans garage and attic and was reintroduced to some Fangoria, Marvel and Consumer reports dating back to 1963 .

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    I subscribed to the economist. It's the British based news mag. It pisses me off as they inject heavy liberal opinions but I really like the mix of international. Also have the New York post tonight as it's a good laugh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
    @Batman #bukkakevolunteer I'm surprised you are such an avid reader of deep material. I figured you for a drunken louse who spends his time trying to screw people who buy insurance. Aka a member of the zog
    @walrus I am a drunken louse, I spend my time trying to stop arseholes from scamming other people via their insurance.

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    Two things Abrief history of time Stephen Hawking and A novel called The Slap, by Christos tsiolakas set around these parts in Melbourne about a family of greek Aussies who get together for a bbq and one of the men slaps a spoiled kid (who still breast feeds) of 5 years down after a light knee to the cods.The family fall apart sort of, court case etc well written and fucking funny in parts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
    Two things Abrief history of time Stephen Hawking and A novel called The Slap, by Christos tsiolakas set around these parts in Melbourne about a family of greek Aussies who get together for a bbq and one of the men slaps a spoiled kid (who still breast feeds) of 5 years down after a light knee to the cods.The family fall apart sort of, court case etc well written and fucking funny in parts.
    A brief history of time was great but towards the middle Hawking kind of forgot that the idea of the book was that it was supposed to be quite accessible and you didn't need to be a rocket scientist to understand it.

    I gave my copy to a mate for him to read and he moved to the other side of the country the bastard, never got it back off him.

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    Just finished this, I've really slacked off with my reading just lately, I think that with the threat of redundancy and other shit at work I had a lot of things on my mind and I didn't even realize it, anyway I just haven't been in the mindset to do any reading, I blasted through the last 125 pages of this today.

    Decent book, I really enjoyed the setting and the location of the book but the characters were just middle of the road and I didn't really feel anything for any of them, they were all just pretty cliched, I reckon that if I would have been in the mood to get it read in a few days I may have enjoyed it more but the fact that it has took me 5 weeks annoyed me.

    Anyway I'm moving onto this next



    Will the past become our future? Is humankind destined to repeat the events that occurred on another planet, far away from Earth? Zecharia Sitchin's bestselling series The Earth Chronicles provided humanity's side of the story concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, "those who from heaven to earth came." In The Lost Book of Enki we now view this saga from the perspective of Lord Enki, an Anunnaki leader revered in antiquity as a god, who tells the story of these extraterrestrials' arrival on Earth from the planet Nibiru.

    In his previous works Sitchin compiled the complete story of the Anunnaki's impact on human civilization from fragments scattered throughout Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Canaanite, and Hebrew sources. Missing from these accounts, however, was the perspective of the Anunnaki themselves. What was life like on their own planet? What motives propelled them to settle on Earth - and what drove them from their new home? Convinced of the existence of an actual autobiography of Enki - a lost book that held the answers to these questions - the author began his search for evidence. Through exhaustive research of primary sources, and using actual discovered portions of the ancient text as "scaffolding," he has here re-created the memoirs of Enki, the leader of these first "astronauts." What takes shape is the story that begins on another world, a story of mounting tensions, survival dangers and royal succession rivalries, and sophisticated scientific knowledge concerning human origins that is only today being confirmed. An epic tale of gods and men unfolds that parallels the Bible and may challenge every assumption we hold about our past and our future.

    An eminent Orientalist and Biblical scholar, Zecharia Sitchin is distinquished by his ability to read Sumerian clay tablets and other ancient texts. He is a graduate of the University of London and worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years.
    I've been delving into the history of the Sumerians and it's fucking fascinating, how they knew the shit they did and how fast their culture evolved is unfathomable.

    It's well worth looking into the Anunnaki and the planet Niburu if you are bored and fancy wasting a few hours.
    David Icke looks into a lot of that and seems to cover similar sources. It is very interesting and no more far out than what you find in the Bible. Yet Icke is deemed a nut and the Pope gets prime time on TV. Go figure.

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