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Nearly finished Living on the Volcano by Michael Calvin. Excellent insight into football management. Well worth a read.

Looking forward to reading his latest book "State of play" next all about the modern game.

 

Anyone into WW2 check out "In harms way" by Doug Stanton all about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis which carried the bomb parts for Hiroshima and the subsequent battle for survival by the sailors. If you like sharks this book is also for you.

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Anyone into WW2 check out "In harms way" by Doug Stanton all about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis which carried the bomb parts for Hiroshima and the subsequent battle for survival by the sailors. If you like sharks this book is also for you.

 

 

Horrific isn't it

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2 hours ago, Red Dawn said:

Nearly finished Living on the Volcano by Michael Calvin. Excellent insight into football management. Well worth a read.

Looking forward to reading his latest book "State of play" next all about the modern game.

 

Anyone into WW2 check out "In harms way" by Doug Stanton all about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis which carried the bomb parts for Hiroshima and the subsequent battle for survival by the sailors. If you like sharks this book is also for you.

I would say after reading the book I'm not sure that I like sharks that much any more. Amazing accounts though.

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"A History of the Jews" by Paul Johnson

 

He's a Christian, and his biases quite obvious.

 

And the last 100 years really don't lend themselves to a broad survey history, as there's no way to treat the issues fairly given the necessary brevity.

 

But I learned a lot I didn't know before, so I'd give it a conditional recommendation.

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Crime based ones, some I've read and others are on my list to read.

 

The Crucifix killer by Chris Carter

 

First of the Robert Hunter books, good few of these if you like this.

 

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in Los Angeles, Robert Hunter is thrown into a nightmare case. The victim suffered a terrible death, and on the nape of her neck has been carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer.

But that's impossible. Because two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this therefore be a copycat killer? Or could the unthinkable be true? Is the real killer still out there, ready to embark once again on a vicious and violent killing spree, selecting his victims seemingly at random, taunting Robert Hunter with his inability to catch him?

Hunter and his rookie partner, Garcia, need to solve this case and fast.

 

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002SW8Y1K/?coliid=I1YQ785NZ24WBR&colid=1PCYDNVL0DRV6&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

 

A lesson in Violence by Jordan Harper

 

Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail and driving a stolen car. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life.

 

Nate made dangerous enemies in prison--a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside to finish him off. They've already murdered his ex-wife, Polly's mother. And Polly is their next target.

 

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Darktown by Thomas Mullen

 

 

Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.

On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the authorities: they can't arrest white suspects; they can't drive a squad car; they must operate out of a dingy basement.

 

When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops from vastly different backgrounds. Pressured from all sides, they will risk their jobs, the trust of their community and even their own lives to investigate her death.

 

Their efforts bring them up against a brutal old-school cop, Dunlow, who has long run Darktown as his own turf - but Dunlow's idealistic young partner, Rakestraw, is a young progressive who may be willing to make allies across colour lines . . .

 

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The rules of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake

 

First of a trilogy.

 

Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization. When they're discovered, the violent upshot forces Eddie and Miranda to run for their lives, fleeing into the deadly Sonora Desert in hope of crossing the border to safety. But La Navaja's reach is far and his lust for revenge insatiable. If La Navaja's men don't kill Eddie and Miranda, the brutal desert just may. Their only hope: help from the family that Eddie abandoned. At once a riveting thriller and an inside look at the blood-drenched Mexican drug trade, The Rules of Wolfe is another classic crime novel from a writer Entertainment Weekly calls 'one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life.'

 

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Quaker by Liam Mkllvanney

 

Based on the real life Bible John murders in Glasgow:

 

A city torn apart.
Glasgow, 1969. In the grip of the worst winter for years, the city is brought to its knees by a killer whose name fills the streets with fear: the Quaker. He takes his next victim – the third woman from the same nightclub – and dumps her in the street like rubbish.

 

A detective with everything to prove.
The police are left chasing a ghost, with no new leads and no hope of catching their prey. DI McCormack, a talented young detective from the Highlands, is ordered to join the investigation. But his arrival is met with anger from a group of officers on the brink of despair. Soon he learns just how difficult life can be for an outsider.

 

A killer who hunts in the shadows.
When another woman is found murdered in a tenement flat, it’s clear the case is by no means over. From ruined backstreets to the dark heart of Glasgow, McCormack follows a trail of secrets that will change the city – and his life – forever…

 

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The Bayou trilogy by Daniel Woodrell

 

A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, "What people say about Cormac McCarthy ... goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more."

 

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth.

 

As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent father.

 

THE BAYOU TRILOGY highlights the origins of a one-of-a-kind author, a writer who for over two decades has created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and has steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.

 

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The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson

 

The first of the Longmire novels which the TV series is based on. Much better than the TV show, well worth a read.

 

After 25 years as Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of ending his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody was one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengeance, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and a Sharps .45-70 rifle.

With lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear and Deputy Victoria Moretti Walt Longmire attempts to see that revenge, a dish best served cold, is never served at all.

 

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Mixed ones, Sci Fi, Horror etc...

 

Siren Song by Seymour Stein

 

Seymour Stein is America's greatest record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, over sixty years in the game, but he's still the hippest label head, travelling the globe in search of the next big thing. Since the late fifties, Stein's been wherever it's happening: Billboard, Tin Pan Alley, The British Invasion, CBGB, Studio 54, Danceteria, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, the CD crash. Along that winding path, Stein discovered and broke out a skyline full of stars: Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Madonna, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Lou Reed, Seal, and many others. Brimming with hilarious scenes and big personalities, Siren Song's bigger story is about modernity in motion, and the slow acceptance of diversity in America - thanks largely to daring pop music. Including both the high and low points in his life, The Song touches on everything from Stein's discovery of Madonna to his wife Linda's violent death. Seymour Stein is a legend. Sung from the heart, Siren Song will etch his story in stone.

 

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Meddling kids by Edgar Cantero

 

A nostalgic and subversive trip rife with sly nods to H. P. Lovecraft and pop culture, in the vein of It and Stranger Things 


An exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn. SUMMER 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren t for those meddling kids. 


1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. And Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running from her demons. She needs answers. To find them she will need Kerri, the one-time kid genius and budding biologist, now drinking her ghosts away in New York with Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the club. They will also have to get Nate, the horror nerd currently residing in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. Luckily Nate has not lost contact with Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star who was once their team leader... which is remarkable, considering Peter has been dead for years. 


The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It s their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world.

 

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World's End by Mark Chadbourne

 

When Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher encounter a terrifying, misshapen giant beneath a London bridge they are plunged into a mystery which portends the end of the world as we know it. All over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic myth are returning to the land from which they were banished millennia ago. Following in their footsteps are creatures of folklore: fabulous bests, wonders and dark terrors.

 

As technology starts to fail, Jack and Ruth are forced to embark on a desperate quest for four magical items - the last chance for humanity in the face of powers barely comprehended.

 

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The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

 

When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The two marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after.

 

However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one day she commits an unthinkable act, setting Apollo on a wild and fantastical quest through a suddenly otherworldly New York, in search of a wife and child he no longer recognises.

 

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Son of the morning by Mark Adler

 

Lauded by fellow authors, a five star 'SFX recommends' title, adored by the bloggers, Mark Alder's debut novel of angels, demons, kings and the Hundred Years War marks the beginning of a hugely exciting new series.

 

Edward III stands in a burnt English church, destroyed in a French raid. A raid on his land, a raid on him. He is in debt and surrounded by doubters, only victory against France will save his throne.

 

But Philip of Valois can put 50,000 men in the field. He has sent his priests to summon the very angels themselves to fight for France. Edward could call on God for aid but he is a usurper. What if God truly is on the side of the French?

 

But for a price, Edward could open the gates of Hell and take an unholy war to France ...

 

Mark Alder has brought the epic fantasy of George R.R. Martin to the vivid historical adventure of Bernard Cornwell and has a created a fantasy that will sweep you to a new vision of the Hundred Years War.

 

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The fifth season by NK Jemisin

 

This is the way the world ends. Again.

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

 

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And finally some books I've recommended before but can't recall anyone taking them up unlike the Charlie Parker and Elvis Cole ones. All these are well worth a read:

 

The Matthew Scudder series by Lawrence Block. They've been going for years since the mid 70's, set in New York Scudder is your typical ex alcoholic cop, but the series evolves into much more. Bit slow to start with but well worth giving a go, he's got awards coming out of his arse for the series and like Connolly and Burke is a great writer.

 

First book The sins of the fathers http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sins-Fathers-Matthew-Scudder-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B005XBUENY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1435764954&sr=8-3&keywords=the+sins+of+the+father

 

Dan Simmons, probably best known for his horror and Sci-fi books, has a great trilogy of hard boiled detective novels, Hardcase, Hard Freeze and Hard as Nails. First book Hardcase sees PI Joe Kurtz, freshly out of jail, take on the local mob in Buffalo, New York. As always with Simmons they are ace.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hardcase-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316213438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435765302&sr=8-1&keywords=hardcase+dan+simmons

 

The Byrne and Balzano series by Richard Moltanari. Set in Philadelphia with Byrne and Balzano being homicide detectives this is a cracking little series, most of the books have some outlandish gruesome serial killer or other they have to catch.

 

First book The Rosary girls http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosary-Girls-Byrne-Balzano/dp/0099486881/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435766170&sr=1-1&keywords=the+rosary+girls

 

The Max Mingus trilogy by Nick Stone. Set in Miami and Haiti it starts when Mingus is hired to track down a kidnapped child of a billionaire on Haiti who is rumored to have been taken by a black magic figure called Mr Clarinet. Great books these and a setting different from most others of the kind.

 

First book Mr Clarinet http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Clarinet-Nick-Stone-ebook/dp/B00338079U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435767487&sr=1-1&keywords=mr+clarinet

 

The Jan Fabel books by Craig Russell who is a Brit, but the books are set in Berlin. Again very enjoyable partly due to the setting being somewhere you don't read about often in the genre, the books are very good. Normally deals with a serial killer with a dose of mythical legend thrown in, definitely worth giving the first Book Blood Eagle a go. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Eagle-Craig-Russell/dp/0099472589/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435767825&sr=1-2&keywords=craig+russell+jan+fabel+series+in+order

 

The Carson Ryder series by Jack Kerley. A personal favourite, the books are macabre and real page turners. Set in Alabama, Carson Ryder is a detective and his brother was one of America's most notorious serial killers, he gets advice off him sometime in a Hannibal Lecter type of way but that's rarely the main focus of the story.

 

First book The Hundreth Man http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundredth-Man-Carson-Ryder-Book-ebook/dp/B007WOC5C8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435768034&sr=1-1&keywords=jack+kerley

 

And finally something a little different the Carl Houseman books by Donald Harstad. Houseman is a fat police officer in his 50's in rural Iowa which is a change of pace, but the books are great fun and deal with things like a devil worshippers and a vampire cult ( nothing supernatural ), very well written and worth a go. Start with Eleven Days http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eleven-Days-Donald-Harstad/dp/1857028708/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435768800&sr=1-3&keywords=eleven+day

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"Long Walk to Freedom"

 

Nelson Mandela

 

I enjoyed it, learned quite a bit.

 

I was surprised by how little he'd done prior to going to prison.

 

It left me with a sense that he was as much a figure-head for the movement as the actual leader of it.

 

It's also left me wanting to read a biography of Oliver Tambo, and a history of the ANC itself.

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On 9/28/2018 at 2:02 AM, Sugar Ape said:

And finally some books I've recommended before but can't recall anyone taking them up unlike the Charlie Parker and Elvis Cole ones. All these are well worth a read:

 

The Matthew Scudder series by Lawrence Block. They've been going for years since the mid 70's, set in New York Scudder is your typical ex alcoholic cop, but the series evolves into much more. Bit slow to start with but well worth giving a go, he's got awards coming out of his arse for the series and like Connolly and Burke is a great writer.

 

First book The sins of the fathers http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sins-Fathers-Matthew-Scudder-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B005XBUENY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1435764954&sr=8-3&keywords=the+sins+of+the+father

 

Dan Simmons, probably best known for his horror and Sci-fi books, has a great trilogy of hard boiled detective novels, Hardcase, Hard Freeze and Hard as Nails. First book Hardcase sees PI Joe Kurtz, freshly out of jail, take on the local mob in Buffalo, New York. As always with Simmons they are ace.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hardcase-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316213438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435765302&sr=8-1&keywords=hardcase+dan+simmons

 

The Byrne and Balzano series by Richard Moltanari. Set in Philadelphia with Byrne and Balzano being homicide detectives this is a cracking little series, most of the books have some outlandish gruesome serial killer or other they have to catch.

 

First book The Rosary girls http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosary-Girls-Byrne-Balzano/dp/0099486881/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435766170&sr=1-1&keywords=the+rosary+girls

 

The Max Mingus trilogy by Nick Stone. Set in Miami and Haiti it starts when Mingus is hired to track down a kidnapped child of a billionaire on Haiti who is rumored to have been taken by a black magic figure called Mr Clarinet. Great books these and a setting different from most others of the kind.

 

First book Mr Clarinet http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Clarinet-Nick-Stone-ebook/dp/B00338079U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435767487&sr=1-1&keywords=mr+clarinet

 

The Jan Fabel books by Craig Russell who is a Brit, but the books are set in Berlin. Again very enjoyable partly due to the setting being somewhere you don't read about often in the genre, the books are very good. Normally deals with a serial killer with a dose of mythical legend thrown in, definitely worth giving the first Book Blood Eagle a go. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Eagle-Craig-Russell/dp/0099472589/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435767825&sr=1-2&keywords=craig+russell+jan+fabel+series+in+order

 

The Carson Ryder series by Jack Kerley. A personal favourite, the books are macabre and real page turners. Set in Alabama, Carson Ryder is a detective and his brother was one of America's most notorious serial killers, he gets advice off him sometime in a Hannibal Lecter type of way but that's rarely the main focus of the story.

 

First book The Hundreth Man http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundredth-Man-Carson-Ryder-Book-ebook/dp/B007WOC5C8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435768034&sr=1-1&keywords=jack+kerley

 

And finally something a little different the Carl Houseman books by Donald Harstad. Houseman is a fat police officer in his 50's in rural Iowa which is a change of pace, but the books are great fun and deal with things like a devil worshippers and a vampire cult ( nothing supernatural ), very well written and worth a go. Start with Eleven Days http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eleven-Days-Donald-Harstad/dp/1857028708/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435768800&sr=1-3&keywords=eleven+day

Good to see you back mate. Thanks for the recommendations, I’ve read the excellent Byrne and Balzano series but will get stuck into the others. Nice one. 

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Agreed on SA being back. One of the best contributors to this thread and has been much missed for that reason. 

 

I finished the Bobiverse trilogy NV recommended and really enjoyed it. Now I’m on The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which is the first of The Kingkiller Chronicles (a fantasy series). It’s started really well. Can’t remember if it was recommended on here or not, but either way it’s good. 

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Agreed on SA being back. One of the best contributors to this thread and has been much missed for that reason. 

 

I finished the Bobiverse trilogy NV recommended and really enjoyed it. Now I’m on The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which is the first of The Kingkiller Chronicles (a fantasy serie). It’s started really well. Can’t remember if it was recommended on here or not, but either way it’s good. 

Great thread and Sugar Ape obviously knows his apples. Expensive taste in books though!

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On 9/28/2018 at 3:59 AM, polymerpunkah said:

"Long Walk to Freedom"

 

Nelson Mandela

 

I enjoyed it, learned quite a bit.

 

I was surprised by how little he'd done prior to going to prison.

 

It left me with a sense that he was as much a figure-head for the movement as the actual leader of it.

 

It's also left me wanting to read a biography of Oliver Tambo, and a history of the ANC itself.

Spoilers!

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I've seen a few people comment on here about Red Sister by Mark Lawrence, I'm reading Emperor of Thorns at the moment 400 pages in after reading Prince and King of Thorns, I'm completely lost and wondering if I should bother finishing it. Red Sister any better or the series before that? Also I have Joe Abercrombie The First Law series are they any good?

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Re-read Watchmen over the last few weeks, first time in a few years.  Just a great book.  Genuinely felt certain parts resonated stronger than ever, feel my appreciation of some characters has grown quite a bit since my last read-through.  Rorschach's relationship with the wingnut New Frontiersman standing out as particularly relevant.

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On 10/28/2018 at 6:17 PM, Edward. said:

I've seen a few people comment on here about Red Sister by Mark Lawrence, I'm reading Emperor of Thorns at the moment 400 pages in after reading Prince and King of Thorns, I'm completely lost and wondering if I should bother finishing it. Red Sister any better or the series before that? Also I have Joe Abercrombie The First Law series are they any good?

Stick with it mate. It’s ace. 

 

Red Sister is his best series though - and more readable. 

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Just read the first two books of The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s the story of the rise and fall of a great warrior wizard in his own words from apparently after the fall. Really good and not especially nerdy which is always a bonus with fantasy. 

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