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Re: I just finished reading.................
Posted by **backbeat** on Jun 16, 2013 at 10:31:09 AM:
In Reply to: Re: I just finished reading................. posted by **backbeat** on Jun 16, 2013 at 10:26:45 AM:
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*******AMAZING STORY by an AMAZING STORYTELLER..............
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*******Murray - you want an introduction to King - go for this one
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****** I almost picked that up when I first saw it... I'm Not a super big King fan but I have read some of his work..... I liked his short story collections most of all... I do recall enjoying Firestarter and Cujo way back though..*
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*****it's a great mix of fact & fiction brilliantly woven into a story that's hard to put down
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****Lately I've been reading a lot of hard-boiled detective fiction... A number of the Mickey Spillane books such as I, The Jury and One Lonely Night......And quite a few featuring private eyes Mike Shayne and Shell Scott...
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****Very entertaining stuff...
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***if you like mystery Henning Mankell and his Kurt Wallander detective books are really well written or another one I really like is Fred Vargas and her detective Adamsberg books the first book in her Adamsberg series is 'Have Mercy on Us All' although you can read them in any order. again both authors are great writers with riveting stories.
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**The only Wallander books I haven't read yet are The Dogs Of Riga, Firewall, and the book of short stories featuring Wallander's early cases... Mankell kicks butt and takes names..
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**Not familiar with Vargas...I'll be on the lookout for his stuff. Thanks for the tip..
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*Fred is a she, her stuff, Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau - brilliant writing and great stories - she is a fan of both Stendhal and P G Wodehouse so you get this humour element combined with compelling crime mysteries. you'll become addicted....
unfortunately i've finished all the Wallander books - i wish there were more!!
have you seen the TV series with Kenneth Branagh? really well done.
this is from Wiki:
Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. The first three-episode series, produced by Yellow Bird, Left Bank Pictures and TKBC for BBC Scotland, was broadcast on BBC One from November to December 2008. It is the first time the Wallander novels have been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006. In 2007, Branagh met with Mankell to discuss playing the role. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind, in January 2008. Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series. The two were keen to use the Red One digital camera, making Wallander the first British television series to do so.
The second series was filmed from July to October 2009 and was broadcast in January 2010.[1] The third series was filmed in the summer of 2011 in Ystad and Riga, Latvia,[2] and aired in July 2012.[3] Critics have written positively of the series, which has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Best Actor for Branagh) and six British Academy Television Awards, including Best Drama Series.Followup Messages:
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