Monday 19 October 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FIFTY-ONE

Over halfway on the physical books at least ..........
Tub 51!

Ian Rankin x 2, Joseph Wambaugh x 2, Stanley Karnow

Wambaugh 1984

Lawrence Sanders x 3, Sam Reaves, Thomas H. Cook,

Wambaugh 1993


Ross MacDonald, Joseph Kanon, Charlie Higson, Sophie McKenzie, Mandasue Heller,

New to me author - Joseph Kanon

Chester Himes, Patricia Melo, Lee Goldberg, Tim O'Brien, Tess Berry-Hart,

One of his best books and one of the best I've read on Vietnam

5th Coffin Ed Johnson book

Maureen Carter, Ben Elton, Shane Maloney, Stephen Cole, Christopher Hudson,

Vietnam travelogue!

Maureen Carter - untried as yet,

Lawrence Block x 2, Esi Edugyan, John Walsh, Steve Weddle edited magazine,

Irish-English memoir

Needle - A Magazine of Noir!


Ross MacDonald x 2, John Sandford, Charles McCarry, Ed McBain,

87th Precinct

Lew Archer

Victor Canning x 2, Dick Francis, Tim Sebastian, John D. MacDonald,

Jim Mortimore, David A. Maurer, Ross MacDonald, Graham Greene, Robert Wright Campbell,

Forgotten author? I love his Jimmy Flannery books,

Nick Hornby, Lawrence Block, Tucker Coe, Chad Taylor, Sam Reaves,

Chad Taylor - New Zealand author

Matthew Scudder book,

Tub 51 - put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS........ John Sandford, Ross MacDonald - when I ever get around to starting his Lew Archer series, Lawrence Block and Lawrence Sanders.


LOWLIGHTS......... there appears to be a few YA teen books that have sneaked themselves into the tubs from my son's discards. Not sure I'll ever read them.

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
BERRY-HART TESS FEARLESS 2009
BLOCK LAWRENCE A DANCE AT THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE 1991 MS9
BLOCK LAWRENCE OUT ON THE CUTTING EDGE 1989 MS7
BLOCK LAWRENCE WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES 1986 MS6
CAMPBELL ROBERT WRIGHT HIP-DEEP IN ALLIGATORS 1987 JF3
CANNING VICTOR FIRECREST 1971
CANNING VICTOR THE RAINBIRD PATTERN 1972
CARTER MAUREEN BABY LOVE 2006 BM3
COE TUCKER WAX APPLE 1970 MT3
COLE STEPHEN THIEVES LIKE US 2006
COOK THOMAS H. PLACES IN THE DARK 2000
EDUGYAN ESI HALF BLOOD BLUES 2011
ELTON  BEN MELTDOWN 2009
FRANCIS DICK KNOCKDOWN 1974
GOLDBERG LEE MR MONK IS A MESS 2012 MM14
GREENE GRAHAM BRIGHTON ROCK 1938
HELLER MANDASUE BROKE 2013
HIGSON CHARLIE SILVERFIN 2005 YB1
HIMES CHESTER ALL SHOT UP 1960 CEJ5
HORNBY NICK ABOUT A BOY 1998
HUNT CHRISTOPHER SPARRING WITH CHARLIE 1997
KANON JOSEPH ALIBI 2005
KARNOW STANLEY VIETNAM: A HISTORY 1983
MACDONALD ROSS FIND A VICTIM 1954 LA5
MACDONALD ROSS THE BLUE HAMMER 1976 LA18
MACDONALD ROSS THE BARBAROUS COAST 1956 LA6
MACDONALD ROSS THE UNDERGROUND MAN 1971 LA16
MACDONALD JOHN D. DRESS HER IN INDIGO 1969 TM11
MALONEY SHANE STIFF 1994 MW1
MAURER DAVID A. THE DYING PLACE 1986
McBAIN ED TIL DEATH 1959 87P9
McCARRY CHARLES THE BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS 1988
McKENZIE SOPHIE BLOOD RANSOM 2010 B2
MELO PATRICIA THE KILLER 1997 M1
MORTIMORE JIM CRACKER: MEN SHOULD WEEP 1995 C6
O'BRIEN TIM GOING AFTER CACCIATO 1978
RANKIN IAN EXIT MUSIC 2007 IR17
RANKIN IAN THE NAMING OF THE DEAD 2006 IR16
REAVES SAM BURY IT DEEP 1993 CM3
REAVES SAM GET WHAT'S COMING 1995 CM4
SANDERS LAWRENCE THE FIRST DEADLY SIN 1973 EXD2
SANDERS LAWRENCE THE SECOND DEADLY SIN 1977 EXD3
SANDERS LAWRENCE THE THIRD DEADLY SIN 1981 EXD4
SANDFORD JOHN  BAD BLOOD 2010 VF4
SEBASTIAN TIM THE SPY IN QUESTION 1988
TAYLOR CHAD SHIRKER 2000
WALSH JOHN  THE FALLING ANGELS 1999
WAMBAUGH JOSEPH THE SECRETS OF HARRY BRIGHT 1984
WAMBAUGH JOSEPH FINNEGAN'S WEEK 1993
WEDDLE STEVE NEEDLE: ISSUE 2 - SUMMER 2010 (ed.) 2010

14 comments:

  1. I read Lawrence Sanders, particularly the Deadly Sin series, in my youth—a period when I was hooked to over a dozen bestselling authors. Joseph Wambaugh is an writer I'd like to read some day. I often come across his novels though I have never been inspired to pick any.

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    1. I've not yet tried Lawrence Sanders yet. Wambaugh I last read maybe 15 years or so ago! I ought to make time for both, though in truth there will never be enough time, Prashant!

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  2. I see you have plenty of Ross Macdonald, Col. I always liked his Lew Archer; I hope you will, too. And I'm glad you have some John D. MacDonald, too. His Travis McGee is iconic, in my opinion. Oh, and I hope you'll like Rankin's Exit Music. Nothing like a bit of John Rebus...

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    1. Rebus, Archer, Travis........where do I begin? Well I have read a few from John D. - so maybe the others then! :)

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  3. Kanon's Alibi is probably the novel of his I've liked the best: one of those novels one becomes slowly more and more immersed in. More recently I was disappointed by his Stardust, but that may have been because I was expecting too much of it -- set in 1950s Hollywood B-movie land, an' all.

    What everyone else says about Rebus, Archer, McGee. is an especially good Rebus. It marked the last in the series . . . until, of course, Rankin restarted it.

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    1. I haven't yet tried Kanon, John. I don't think I have too much by him, definitely not Stardust anyway.
      Rankin's Rebus is definitely one I'll try to read next year, but you'll probably have to remind me!

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  4. Some good ones there: I like Kanon and Hornby and have read and liked both of those. The John Walsh book is very funny, particularly for those of us with Irish Catholic backgrounds... And I like the title Finnegans Week, very clever.

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    1. I loved the film of Hornby's book. The Walsh I picked up because of the connection and background. The penny only dropped about Wambaugh's title when I was logging, the reference had otherwise escaped me.

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  5. I have not read nearly enough Rankin.

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    1. Elgin - ditto, I can chalk up the first Rebus and the first of one of his other series, Malcolm Fox.

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  6. I will be interested in seeing how you like Ross Macdonald's books. I have only read one of the Rebus series. The first one of course. Haven't tried Kanon yet, although I have several of his books.

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    1. I haven't tried Ross MacDonald yet. I think part of me likes acquiring books almost as much as actually reading them!

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    2. I understand, Col, I love acquiring books. But I do have to slow down in that area, regardless.

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    3. Yes, but I keep getting my head turned and have very little willpower! Maybe 2016! Haha

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