[ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:39:11 +0100
Fatherland is my favourite Steve. Chilling to read and also an excellent BBC
world service dramatisation which uses sound and location brilliantly. It's
about time 4Extra repeated it again.
On 5 May 2013, at 17:54, Steven Bingham wrote:
> My favourite Robert Harris so far is Pompeii. I was reading it at the time we
> went to the archaeological site which I found quite overwhelming. Ghost and
> Fatherland were both excellent. The only one that I found slightly
> disappointing was Archangel where the story didn’t quite hang together at the
> end.
>
> Steve
>
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>
> I’ve yet to be let down by Robert Harris and I too enjoyed this book.
> The first of his books which I read was Ghost – a very different book indeed
> but a real page-turner and you didn’t have to be a mind-reader to see which
> primeminister he was basing his character on.
> Alison
>
>
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> On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
> Sent: 04 May 2013 21:37
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] CURRENT READING
>
> Hi
>
> While I am avoiding Casualty I have the time to tell you about what I am
> reading at present.
>
> Firstly, I’m almost breaking one of my rules in that I am reading twobooks
> set in the same place. However as there is over 2000 years between them it
> shouldn’t be much of a problem. The first is Robert Harris’ Lustrum. This is
> the second part of his fictional biography of Cicero. I read the first volume
> because it was Robert Harris but didn’t expect to enjoy much but surprised
> myself by finding I was totally immersed in it. So far the second part is
> living up to the first. The second book is The Lost Girls of Rome by Domato
> Carrisi. This is a complex one. It is almost Robert Langdon meets Temperance
> Brennan but not quite. It starts with unrelated incidents in Rome, Milan and
> Paris and features modern day monks using heightened perception to find out
> what has happened and a Forensic scientist looking for scientific proof. So
> far it is good. I don’t know anything about the author but assume the book
> has been translated from Italian.
>
> Steve
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