Monday 25 July 2016

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-SIX

Could possibly be the tub of The Vietnam War this week.....

I had a big fascination with this conflict, probably because I could dimly recall seeing news reports in the TV as I was growing up. Back in the 80s and early 90s I used to read a lot about it both memoirs and fiction. I can't recall the last Vietnam book I read. I ought to read something related soon - does the fascination still hold or have I moved on?
Tub 76

Ian Rankin x 2, David Corbett, David Mark, Tom Kakonis,

One of my all time favourite authors!
“A cracking good crime thriller that resurrects both the gambling hero of Kakonis' Michigan Roll and the exhilaratingly tough, yet deeply humane, storytelling that made that first novel one of the most memorable in recent crime fiction,” Kirkus Reviews

A mob boss has given professional gambler Timothy Waverly two weeks to make good on a $300,000 debt…or die at the hands of two hit men. Waverly’s only hope is convince a pill-popping, ex-girlfriend and her loser husband to set him up in a series of high-stakes poker games in Palm Beach with a rich Arab prince who cheats at cards. But that’s not the only game that’s rigged. Waverly knows he’s going to be killed as soon as he pays his debt…and that somehow he’s got to cheat death in the ultimate gamble.

Charles Cumming, Frances FitzGerald, Pete Dexter, Peter Temple, Tom Mangold/John Penycate,

Pete Dexter - not an author I have tried yet.

Ian Rankin x 3, Pete Dexter, Ryan David Jahn,

3 x Rebus, probaby not one for bedtime reading! I'll break my arm.

Ryan David Jahn 
From the author of the award-winning debut crime novel Good Neighbors-a white-knuckle thriller about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter.

The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four months.

So begins East Texas police dispatcher Ian Hunt's fight to get his daughter back. The call is cut off by the man who snatched her from her bedroom seven years ago, and a basic description of the kidnapper is all Ian has to go on. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase from Texas to California along Interstate 10- a wild ride in a 1965 Mustang that passes through the outlaw territory of No Country for Old Men and is shot through with moments of macabre violence that call to mind the novels of Thomas Harris.
Justin Rose, Robert Newman, Martina Cole, Rick Gekoski, Andrew Weist (ed.)

Sporting diary following Coventry City's fortunes!

Justin Scott and a series book

Harlan Coben, Tonino Benacquista, Sebastian Faulks, Anthony Horowitz, Blaine Harden,

Fun times in North Korea



Made into a film starring De Niro
Imagine The Sopranos transplanted to the French countryside... .

This thrillingly comic, internationally bestselling Mafia farce is the inspiration for the major motion picture The Family starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones, and produced by Martin Scorsese.

The Blakes are newcomers to a small town in Normandy. Fred is a historian researching the Allied landings, Maggie enjoys charity work, and their kids are looking forward to meeting other teenagers at the local lycee. Or so it seems.

In fact, Fred is really Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-goodfella turned stool pigeon who's been relocated from New Jersey to France by the FBI's witness protection program. He's got a two-million-dollar bounty on his head, but he and his family can't help attracting attention (imagine the Sopranos in Normandy). And when imprisoned mobster Don Mimino gets wind of their location, it's Mafia mayhem a la Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper, or like The Godfather as if written by Carl Hiaasen. Because while you can take the man out of the Mafia, you can't take the Mafia out of the man.

Time-Life Vietnam series books
One from a 25 book series, I didn't manage to stay subscribed for the whole run.

Part-work magazine on Nam - 36 episodes in all. Published 1990 - I suppose I ought to start reading them! 







James W. Hall, Oliver Stark, Harry Crews, John Lanchester,

Harry Crews - quite a rare book!
Straight out of college, a guy joins a karate troupe on a Florida beach, The "Karatekas." Action adventure w/ babes, sun & sand.
Poetry in the tubs! James W. Hall better known for his Thorn mysteries! 

Dick Francis x 3, Val McDermid, William Marsden/Julian Sher

Tony Hill/Carol Jordan

Francis 3-fer from the 60s

Adam Blade, James Patterson, Breece D'J Pancake, Stephen King


Collection of short stories from short-lived author.

Tub 76 - put to bed!



HIGHLIGHTS....... Ryan David Jahn, a bit of Ian Rankin, David Corbett, Tom Kakonis


LOWLIGHTS....... a couple of children's books I seem to have hoovered up from my son's collection when he was a lot younger. If I read them I read them, but unlikely.




FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
(NTVE-10)  NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 10 THE AFTERMATH 1990 10
(NTVE-11) BAKER MARK NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 11 NAM 1990 11
(NTVE-12) MASON ROBERT NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 12 CHICKENHAWK 1990 12
(NTVE-8)  NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 8 CAMBODIA AND THE EASTER INVASION 1990 8
(NTVE-9)  NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 9 AIR WAR AND THE SOUTH ABANDONED 1990 9
(NVTE-13) CHANOFF/VAN TOAI DAVID/DOAN NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 13 PORTRAIT OF THE ENEMY 1990 13
(NVTE-14) O'BRIEN TIM NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 14 IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE 1990 14
(TVE-10) MILLS NICK THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: A NATION DIVIDED 1984 10
(TVE-12) DOUGAN CLARK THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: A COLLISION OF CULTURES 1985 12
(TVE-13) DOLEMAN  EDGAR C. THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: TOOLS OF WAR 1985 13
(TVE-17) FISCHER J. THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: IMAGES OF WAR 1986 17
(TVE-8) DOYLE EDWARD THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHER 1984 8
BENACQUISTA TONINO BADFELLAS 2010
BLADE ADAM NANOOK THE SNOW MONSTER 2007 BQ5
COBEN HARLAN CAUGHT 2010
COLE MARTINA BROKEN 2000
CORBETT DAVID THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD 2002
CREWS HARRY KARATE IS A THING OF THE SPIRIT 1972
CUMMING CHARLES THE TRINITY SIX 2011
DEXTER PETE BROTHERLY LOVE 1991
DEXTER PETE THE PAPERBOY 1995
FAULKS SEBASTIAN BIRDSONG 1993
FITZGERALD FRANCES FIRE IN THE LAKE 1972
FRANCIS DICK BLOOD SPORT 1967
FRANCIS DICK FLYING FINISH 1966
FRANCIS DICK ODDS AGAINST 1965 SH1
GEKOSKI RICK STAYING UP: A FAN BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE PREMIERSHIP 1998
HALL JAMES W. THE MATING REFLEX 1980
HARDEN BLAINE ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 2012
HOROWITZ ANTHONY ARK ANGEL 2005 AR6
JAHN RYAN DAVID THE DISPATCHER 2011
KAKONIS TOM DOUBLE DOWN 1991 TW3
KING STEPHEN BAG OF BONES 1998
LANCHESTER JOHN CAPITAL 2012
MANGOLD/PENYCATE TOM/JOHN THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI 1985
MARK DAVID ORIGINAL SKIN 2013 DSAMA2
MARSDEN/SHER WILLIAM/JULIAN ANGELS OF DEATH 2006
McDERMID VAL THE TORMENT OF OTHERS 2004 TH+CJ4
NEWMAN ROBERT DEPENDENCE DAY 1994
PANCAKE BREECE D. TRILOBITES & OTHER STORIES 1992
PATTERSON JAMES MARY MARY 2005 AC11
RANKIN IAN A QUESTION OF BLOOD 2003 JR14
RANKIN IAN STRIP JACK 1992 JR4
RANKIN IAN THE BLACK BOOK 1993 JR5
RANKIN IAN MORTAL CAUSES 1994 JR6
RANKIN IAN RESURRECTION MAN 2002 JR13
SCOTT JUSTIN STONEDUST 1995 BA2
STARK OLIVER 88 KILLER 2011 H+L2
TEMPLE PETER IN THE EVIL DAY 2002
WIEST ANDREW ROLLING THUNDER: IN A GENTLE LAND (ed.) 2006

10 comments:

  1. Those Nam magazines look good to read. Hope you write about them, Col. I haven't read Dick Francis in decades. But his paperbacks, mostly about horse racing, are available aplenty. Maybe in the near future.

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    1. I should try and read the series having invested a fair bit of money at the time purchasing them when they came out. I might have to wait until I have logged them all and so can start at the beginning. They've sat around for 25 years another one won't hurt! Some of the latter ones in the series are reprints of veteran's memoirs which I may have already read in book format - eg CHICKENHAWK by ROBERT MASON and NAM by MARK BAKER. It won't hurt to get re-acquainted.
      I've only read one or two from Dick Francis so far, but I do like the horse racing aspect - when betting and money is involved there's always the potential for skullduggery!

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  2. Lots of good stuff there, Col. I like the fact that you have some Rankin there, and I really think you'll like the Benacquista. I'll be keen to know what you think of it!

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    1. One of these years, I'll start the Rebus series in earnest. I think the Benacquista will be enjoyed - the film was a blast!

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  3. You really ARE interested in Vietnam, aren't you? I've read a few of these, including that rather obscure Justin Scott, and Trinity Six. Like the sound of Badfellas. And am still in recovery from the idea of you reading poetry...

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    1. Re Vietnam book buying - I didn't/don't do half measures - all in or nothing! I knew you'd read Justin Scott - not got there yet myself unsurprisingly. Charles Cumming - my experience of the two I've read - a bit disappointing if I'm honest. Badfellas was The Family on the screen, De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones - worth a look if you don't have time for a read.
      Yes poetry in the tubs. Not such a philistine after all, I have a few thin books/pamphlets of poetry from Charles Willeford also

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  4. One of the great books on Vietnam was DISPATCHES by Michael Herr, who just recently passed away.

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    1. Elgin - agreed. I also liked Tim O'Brien's IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE.

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  5. Lots of authors there that I haven't heard of. Badfellas sounds interesting. I have a lot of Ian Rankin I haven't read and I don't know why I keep putting them off. Too many books, I guess.

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    1. I wish I'd read Rankin years ago then I wouldn't have so many to catch up with - see I'm deluding myself that I can get all these read one day!

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