Monday 31 August 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY-FIVE

Here we go again, another tub another 50 books......

Tub 45.......

Jim Nisbet, Philip Kerr,

San Franciscan king of noir!

James Sallis, Karin Slaughter, Martyn Waites

Book 1 of Turner trilogy

Andrew Vachss x 2, Irvine Welsh, Philip Kerr, Ben MacIntyre,

Vachss standalone novel,

Vachss Burke series book,

Bill Bryson, Winston Groom, GaryPhillips-Jervey Tervalon, Nick Cave, Andrew Holmes,

Film wasn't too bad - though I'm not Tom Hanks biggest fan,

Nick Cave,

Max Hastings, Hubert Selby Jr., David Peace, Sharyn Lock/Sarah Irving, Mark SaFranko,

Max Zajack book 3

Non-fiction - eye-witness account Gaza under attack.

60s novel from Selby Jr.

Journalism-non-fiction

Richard Price, Tony O'Neill, David Goodis x 2, Bullet 6 - anthology, Mean Time - short story collection, 

Short stories and poems. UK author and musician.

50s Goodis

Short-lived Brit crime magazine.

More 50s Goodis

Richard Price

Albert French, Jason Pinter, Nick Laird, Cormac McCarthy,

US lit from Albert French
60s McCarthy

George V. Higgins, Nelson DeMille, David Baldacci, Gar Anthony Haywood, Michael Dobbs,

Best titled protagonists - Joe & Dottie Loudermilk

Dobbs series book

George V. Higgins x 3, James W. Hall, Charles Cumming,

Scottish author - Charles Cumming

Jeffery Deaver, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Dennis Lehane, Tess Gerritsen, K.O. Dahl,

Lorenzo Carcaterra, Guns N Roses going round my head!

Thomas H. Cook, Alexander Stuart, Chester Himes,

Chester Himes - 1945

Thomas H. Cook - an unknown quantity!

Alternative history from Cruz Smith.

Time-Life Vietnam book!


HIGHLIGHTS..... I do like Andrew Vachss and his Burke books. I'm keen to try Thomas H. Cook also. Overall a hoh-hum tub really, nothing exceptionally stand-out. Richard Price, I like. Philip Kerr I've not tried. Mark SaFranko - I've just read his The Favor and loved it.

If I was out shopping today for 50 books, I'm not too sure how many of this lot would make it into my basket!

LOWLIGHTS..... Baldacci and Deaver aren't thrusting themselves forwards into my eager hands

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
BALDACCI DAVID THE COLLECTORS 2004 CC2 F
BRYSON BILL MADE IN AMERICA 1994 N
CARCATERRA LORENZO PARADISE CITY 2004 F
CAVE NICK THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO 2009 F
COOK THOMAS H. THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR 1996 F
CUMMING CHARLES THE HIDDEN MAN 2003 F
DAHL K. O. THE MAN IN THE WINDOW 2008 FF2 F
DEAVER JEFFERY THE EMPTY CHAIR 2000 LR3 F
DEMILLE NELSON GOLD COAST 1990 JS1 F
DOBBS MICHAEL THE RELUCTANT HERO 2010 HJ3 F
DOUGAN/WEISS CLARK/STEPHEN THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: NINETEEN SIXTY-EIGHT 1983 N
FRENCH ALBERT BILLY 1993 BM2 F
GERRITSEN TESS CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT 1987 F
GOODIS DAVID OF TENDER SIN 1952 F
GOODIS DAVID CASSIDY'S GIRL 1951 F
GROOM WINSTON FORREST GUMP 1986 FG1 F
HALL JAMES W. UNDER COVER OF DAYLIGHT 1987 TPI1 F
HASTINGS MAX GOING TO THE WARS 2000 N
HAYWOOD GAR ANTHONY GOING NOWHERE FAST 1994 J+DL F
HIGGINS GEORGE V. IMPOSTERS 1986 F
HIGGINS GEORGE V. OUTLAWS 1987 F
HIGGINS GEORGE V. PENANCE FOR JERRY KENNEDY  1985 JK2 F
HIGGINS GEORGE V. WONDERFUL YEARS, WONDERFUL YEARS 1988 N
HIMES CHESTER IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO 1945 F
HOLMES ANDREW CRIMINAL RECORDS 2008 F
JEFFREY KEITH BULLET 6 (ed.) 2003 B6 F
KERR PHILIP A FIVE YEAR PLAN 1997 F
KERR PHILIP IF THE DEAD RISE NOT 2009 BG6 F
LAIRD NICK UTTERLY MONKEY 2005 F
LEHANE DENNIS SACRED 1997 K+G3 F
LOCK/IRVING SHARYN/SARAH GAZA: BENEATH THE BOMBS 2010 N
MACINTYRE BEN AGENT ZIGZAG 2007 N
McCARTHY CORMAC OUTER DARK 1968 F
NISBET JIM THE SYRACUSE CODEX 2005 F
O'NEILL TONY SEIZURE WET DREAMS 2000 F
PEACE DAVID GB84 2004 F
PHILLIPS/TERVALON GARY/JERVEY THE COCAINE CHRONICLES (ed.) 2005 F
PINTER JASON THE DARKNESS 2009 HP5 F
PRICE RICHARD THE WANDERERS 1974 F
SAFRANKO MARK GOD BLESS AMERICA 2010 F
SALLIS JAMES CYPRESS GROVE 2003 T1 F
SELBY JR. HUBERT LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN 1964 F
SLAUGHTER KARIN KISSCUT 2002 GC2 F
SMITH MARTIN CRUZ THE INDIANS WON 1970 F
STUART ALEXANDER LIFE ON MARS 1996 N
SYKES JERRY MEAN TIME (ed.) 1999 F
VACHSS ANDREW SHELLA 1993 F
VACHSS ANDREW CHOICE OF EVIL 1999 B11 F
WAITES MARTYN BORN UNDER PUNCHES 2003 SL4 F
WELSH IRVINE ECSTASY 1996 F

12 comments:

  1. Quite a few authors I have a glancing acquaintance with. I do like Nelson De Mille, and I have read that Charles Cummings one. And - I once interviewed Michael Dobbs, he was a delight.

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    1. De Mille, I have still to try. Ditto Dobbs. Cumming - I have read a couple and am not totally convinced by him.

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  2. I see you have some Kerr there, Col - can't go wrong with his Bernie Gunther novels. And McCarthy, too? You're going to have some solid reading when you get to those books.

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    1. Bernie Gunther series needs to get pencilled in and scheduled otherwise Kerr will get away from me!

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  3. Chester Himes’s series about Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson is really terrific. Richard Price is also good. The last book of his I read was LUSH LIFE – tough, hard New York City streets.

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    1. Elgin, my last Himes outing wasn't a success, but I think the Harlem books will be better. I've not yet read Lush Life, but I'm looking forward to it. His last book was published under a pseudonym - The Whites. Thisone has been recommended to me.

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  4. Lots of variety here. Lots of books / authors I am not familiar with. And those that I have, I haven't read yet. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I would like to try Demille, but his books are soooo long.

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    1. Deja-vous! DeMille does a good job putting people off from his books - someone maybe ought to tell him less is more!

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  5. Hope you enjoy Thomas H Cook as much as I do, when you get to him. And the Goodises (or just Goodies?) have me salivating!

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    1. Goodis had a few on the Munsey's site, which begs the question is it still disappeared? I'll check in a bit. I've not come across anyone who has read Cook yet. I'll start him soon!

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  6. Col, the Martin Cruz Smith alternative history is one I'd be looking for. I didn't about that particular title. I'd also like to know what you think of George V. Higgins, another author I have never read.

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    1. Re Cruz Smith - the bonus is its a short book also! Higgins I haven't read for a fair few years. I'm long overdue another title of his!

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