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David McK (3180 KP) rated Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6) in Books

Jan 28, 2019

2018 update: "Truth! Justice! Reasonably-priced love! And a hard-boiled egg!"

2016 update: Following (Sir) Terry Pratchett's death in 2015 to his 'Embuggerance', I recently came across a blog where the author of said blog was reading all of the Discworld books in order from the first to the last. One of the last entries in the said blog was when he rated the books, from his most to least favourite, and then asked his readers to do the same and later published those responses.

In both cases, 'Night Watch' - which, I think, was one of the last before Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's - was in the top 10, so I decided to go back and re-read it ...

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One of Terry Pratchett's more recent Discworld novel, in which he makes use of the good old time-travel sci-fi trope to move Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch back in time to an earlier portion of his life-time.

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Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Realistic Medical Reports on Hollywood's Greatest Action Heroes

Andrew Shaffer and Steven Lefcourt

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Discover how some of the silver screen's most iconic action heroes would really fare after being...

The Seventh

Luc Sante and Richard Stark

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Parker, the ruthless anti-hero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most...

L.A. Confidential (1997)

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Based on the seminal James Ellroy crime novel, L.A. Confidential is a hard-boiled tale of crime and...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2061 KP) rated Chesapeake Crimes: Invitation to Murder in Books

Oct 7, 2020

Accept this Invitation to Seventeen Murders

In the seventh short story anthology from the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime, each story revolves around an invitation. Some are the obvious invitations for events, but others are a more casual invitation. Either way, they lead to danger of some kind. There’s a mother whose young son is writing a hard-boiled mystery, an escape room that ends in death, a guest who overstays her welcome, bedbugs and murder in London, and a debutant ball in early 1900’s South Carolina. The stories are as varied as their locations, and many are fun. As with every short story collection, not every story will be for every taste. Personally, I found a couple of them too dark to be enjoyable. But the majority of the seventeen stories were a delight. If you are searching for bite sized stories, you’ll be glad you picked up this collection.

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David McK (3180 KP) rated Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) in Books

Oct 1, 2023

Rather than a novel in its own right, this is a loosely connected collection of Jeeves and Wooster short stories, all told ion the first person narrative (nearly all by Wooster except the very last) and largely split between the UK and the US.

In the collection I read, the stories included are as follows:

1) Jeeves Takes Charge (the first meeting of Jeeves and Wooster!)
2) The Artistic Career of Corky (New York)
3) Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest (New York again)
4) Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg (also in New York)
5) The Aunt and the Sluggard (still New York)
6) The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy (Paris)
7) Without the Option (London)
8) Fixing it for Freddie (English seaside)
9) Clustering Round Young Bingo (English countryside)
10) Bertie Changes His Mind (the one told from Jeeves point of view)

Whilst maybe not the best PG Wodehouse Jeeves books I've read, they are nice as a palate cleanser after something heavier!